Tom Limoncelli <t...@whatexit.org> wrote: > > I have 4 DNS servers all running BIND 9.8.2 (the CentOS 6.5 package). One > is configured as the master for about 100 zones. The other 3 are slaves > for those 100 zones. On the master the amount of entropy reported by "cat > /proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_avail" was around 150. On the slaves it > hovered around 90. > > Is there a technical reason for the difference?
My guess is that the slaves need more random numbers because they are making more queries, to check the SOAs of the zones. Tony. -- f.anthony.n.finch <d...@dotat.at> http://dotat.at/ Rockall, Malin: Southeast 5 or 6, veering south 3 or 4. Moderate or rough. Rain then showers. Moderate or poor, becoming good. _______________________________________________ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from this list bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users
