Hi,

I'm having a problem with my caching DNS servers. I'm on bind 9.4.3-p5, threads 
enabled (4), running gentoo 64 bits.

For 2 days, I have some clients (mail servers receiving spams) issuing a lot of 
requests on zone hosted on dead dns server. For example :

'uewchcvqhvnavkevhavecvbcvxevudvr.herojvesterna.com' requesttime 1284583508
'mcacghdhcdb.herojvesterna.com' requesttime 1284583515
'cacghdhcdb.herojvesterna.com' requesttime 1284583515
'lbnsxhnlpgdafmpdneieb.herojvesterna.com' requesttime 1284583521
'uewchcvqhvnavkevhavecvbcvxevudvr.herojvesterna.com' requesttime 1284583528
'obqtujppeofqwpcoeqqbbocqvphpvfo.herojvesterna.com' requesttime 1284583534
'mcacghdhcdb.herojvesterna.com' requesttime 1284583535
'cacghdhcdb.herojvesterna.com' requesttime 1284583535
;'mgjnmcoxgfmfnifmebm.herojvesterna.com' requesttime 1284583537

As the authoritative nameserver for this zone is dead, the answer is send after 
some seconds to the clients. During this time the clients could do perharps 
about 1000 queries on the same zone but different records. After a moment, it's 
like a DoS attack, my cache only DNS server doesn't answer to any query.

What could I do to limit this? Is there something to "cache" that an 
authoritative DNS server doesn't answer??

Regards

David
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