Hi, We have a customer who has their own cache server, but in the afternoons before they close up for the day, they commit off-site backups, this process takes them about 90 mins, anyone trying to use the internet in this time fails 99.9% of the time due to DNS lookup errors, but if they use an external DNS server, such as ours, it works - albeit slow but it does get a response. The local DNS cache server operates fine and instant for their private LAN, and pinging around their LAN is sub 1ms so the problem exists when bind tries to go out to get answers for real hostnames. When their internet link is not fully utilized there is no problems.
The problem arose again today before the off-site backups when just one PC got its message from Microsoft to grab the anniversary update, at 11 o'clock in the morning, strangely it did not fill their link, but the pps must have been rampant because the DNS errors again failed when using their local cache resolver server. Is there a named.conf setting we can suggest they use on their cache server that perseveres and waits a little longer for answers to send to their client machines? They are using bind 9.10.4-p2 with default settings from source package along with options of - directory "/opt/named"; allow-query { xxxxx; }; allow-query-cache { xxxxx; }; allow-transfer { xxxxxx; }; Thanks for any advice. Nik
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