named going into an infinite loop ...

[Michel Fingerhut]

Machine: DECsystem 5820 (RISC)
OS:      Ultrix 4.0 (Rev. 179)

Every once in a while (every 3-4 days), the name daemon starts eating CPU
time, goes to the top of the queue, and fills the syslog error message
table with messages of the form

	Oct 22 10:23:37 localhost: 93 named: accept: Too many open files

(one a second, approximately) until it is killed and/or chokes /usr/spool.
Upon restart, it works fine.  There is no apparent flood of requests prior
to that.

Does anyone have a suggestion on how to approach the problem?

Thanks,
Michael Fingerhut