Setting a timeout for forwarders

I have bind set up to forward only. Is it possible to declare a timeout for recursive queries? I can't seem to find a setting I'm trying to protect against slow or unresponsive DNS that are declared as a forwarder in the named.conf.options settings. ___

Disable SRTT and enable round-robin for forwarders

d to adjust the srtt slow down the traffic to that DNS. And a followup question, is there a simple configuration change I can do to tell bind to ignore srtt values and simply round-robin across a list of DNS that I provide? Thank you in advance for your help.

Re: queries aborted due to quota

That was very informative. Thank you for the information. On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 2:09 PM, Chris Thompson wrote: > On Mar 19 2013, Stephen Wood wrote: > > We are measuring the performance of our bind9 cache & forward servers. >> Under "++ Resolver Statistics ++&q

queries aborted due to quota

w. Are aborted queries simply retried? Do I need to make any kernel level changes, like allowed sockets or open files? How do I troubleshoot this message? Thank you, Stephen Wood Systems Engineer SEOmoz, Inc. ___ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/m

Re: Bind not caching AAAA records

quality of results I'm getting from my upstream DNS server? On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 4:02 PM, Mark Andrews wrote: > > In message bzm...@mail.gmail.com> > , Stephen Wood writes: > > > > Hello. > > > > I have bind set up as a cache and forwarder only. I am ha

Bind not caching AAAA records

Hello. I have bind set up as a cache and forwarder only. I am having trouble getting bind to cache records. I can see from the rndc stats file that A records are being cached quite nicely, but all requests are flowing through to the upstream servers. Here's a snippet from my stats file: