Re: max-cache-size query

2010-06-02 Thread Doug Barton
On 06/02/10 01:31, Techi wrote: but, my question is still not answered. Why on earth such huge defference in the number of connections on the firewall with the max-cache-size on and off? I still don't get it. Imagine the cache as a bucket. With a large bucket the chances of the answer that any

Re: max-cache-size query

2010-06-02 Thread Techi
On Wed 02 of Jun 2010 00:45:42 you wrote: > One obvious solution to keeping the firewall guys happy would just be > to make them not burn state entries for the nameserver at all > Firewalls in front of nameservers cause an ungodly amount of issues > for no real benefit... I will transfer that

Re: max-cache-size query

2010-06-01 Thread Warren Kumari
One obvious solution to keeping the firewall guys happy would just be to make them not burn state entries for the nameserver at all Firewalls in front of nameservers cause an ungodly amount of issues for no real benefit... Just sayin'... W On Jun 1, 2010, at 8:35 AM, Techi wrote:

Re: max-cache-size query

2010-06-01 Thread Adam Tkac
means huge number of connections. If you hit again the crash you should probably open a report in the CentOS tracker. Regards, Adam > > -Original Message- > > From: bind-users-bounces+tsnyder=rim@lists.isc.org > > [mailto:bind-users-bounces+tsnyder=rim....@lists.isc.org]

Re: max-cache-size query

2010-06-01 Thread Techi
iginal Message- > From: bind-users-bounces+tsnyder=rim@lists.isc.org > [mailto:bind-users-bounces+tsnyder=rim@lists.isc.org] On Behalf Of > Techi Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2010 8:36 AM > To: bind-users@lists.isc.org > Subject: max-cache-size query > > Hallo, > Recently,

RE: max-cache-size query

2010-06-01 Thread Todd Snyder
bounces+tsnyder=rim@lists.isc.org] On Behalf Of Techi Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2010 8:36 AM To: bind-users@lists.isc.org Subject: max-cache-size query Hallo, Recently, I faced huge problems with my DNS servers (bind crashed with no apparent reason). Some of the symptons were: * Huge number of con

max-cache-size query

2010-06-01 Thread Techi
Hallo, Recently, I faced huge problems with my DNS servers (bind crashed with no apparent reason). Some of the symptons were: * Huge number of connections on our firewalls (>15). * A lot of errors in syslog about max file descriptors limits reached (currently on system, the FD limit is 4096,