Hello,

Recently we had a Internet outage that lasted for a few hours and quickly
filled the recursive clients quota (set at 1000) since most internet-bound
recursive queries timed out, and our network is huge.

This also affected recursive queries to internal authoritative domains,
thus interrupting access to critical internal resources which don't have
any Internet/SaaS dependencies.

I'm having a hard time understanding the default recursive max quota being
set at 100 by default, since most modern servers now have RAM to spare, and
it's a bit scary to think that another Internet outage may happen again and
internal critical services may not be able to resolve internal
authoritative zones.

Can anyone give some insight into this issue? Can I just configure a huge
number of maximum recursive clientes (say 50k) to "absorb" the
intetnet-bound queries that are timing out and be able to respond to client
requests for internal authoritative zones?

I'm probably missing something, so thanks a lot for your understanding!

Cheers!
Pedro
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