Re: SERVFAIL and peak utilization

2018-07-27 Thread Alex
Hi, I'm still having a problem and haven't received any replies. Is there anyone with any ideas on how to troubleshoot this? What other information can I provide to help troubleshoot this? On Thu, Jul 26, 2018 at 5:49 PM, Alex wrote: > Hi, here is some further debugging on what I believe are q

Re: SERVFAIL and peak utilization

2018-07-26 Thread Alex
Hi, here is some further debugging on what I believe are queries involving SERVFAIL: 26-Jul-2018 17:44:40.168 query-errors: debug 1: client @0x7fbee80f39b0 127.0.0.1#61547 (69.248.70.96.bad.psky.me): query failed (SERVFAIL) for 69.248.70.96.bad.psky.me/IN/A at ../../../bin/named/query.c:8580 26-Ju

Re: SERVFAIL and peak utilization

2018-07-26 Thread Alex
Hi, I've made some performance adjustments although I really don't know whether it's correct, and it doesn't seem to have solved the problem. I also notice the SERVFAIL error seems to happen in bulk - it will happen for a while and then stop. It definitely seems to occur more during peak mail volu

Re: SERVFAIL and peak utilization

2018-07-26 Thread Alex
Hi, On Thu, Jul 26, 2018 at 1:57 PM, John Miller wrote: > Hi Alex, > > What does your query volume look like on this server? Depending on > volume, the BIND defaults for: > > - clients-per-query > - max-clients-per-query > - recursive-clients > - tcp-clients > > and others may not be set high en

Re: SERVFAIL and peak utilization

2018-07-26 Thread John Miller
Hi Alex, What does your query volume look like on this server? Depending on volume, the BIND defaults for: - clients-per-query - max-clients-per-query - recursive-clients - tcp-clients and others may not be set high enough. Check pp. 106-108 in the latest 9.11 manual for more details on each o

SERVFAIL and peak utilization

2018-07-26 Thread Alex
Hi, I have a bind-9.11.4 server on a fedora28 system and are frequently seeing SERVFAIL errors like this: 26-Jul-2018 12:54:04.255 query-errors: info: client @0x7f764314a5c0 127.0.0.1#50719 (223.178.102.199.cidr.bl.mcafee.com): query failed (SERVFAIL) for 223.178.102.199.cidr.bl.mcafee.com/IN/A a