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My UDP timeout is set to 2 minutes (120). I do have a caching-only
nameserver running.
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> From: Fuzzy Fox [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, July 12, 1999 4:22 PM
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> Subject: [Masq] Re: IP MSQ Message
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> Audie Pierre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> > Strictly business is being conducted behind the firewall. Actually,
> > mostly DNS requests are using the UDP ports.
>
> How high are your UDP timeouts set? If you set them really high, like
> 15 minutes, then a large amount of DNS requests will end up filling up
> your port lists.
>
> With such high DNS traffic, you really should set up a caching-only
> nameserver *on* the masq gateway. This will prevent any need to
> masquerade DNS traffic, and will further speed up processing of
> redundant requests. A win-win situation.
>
> > The changes that I've made last Friday involve an upgrade from Redhat
> > 5.2 / Kernel 2.0.36 to Redhat 6.0 / Kernel 2.3.9. Hopefully, that
> > will make a difference.
>
> It won't.
>
> > I also switched from ipfwadm to ipchains.
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> Nor will that.
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