Re: Need to improve named performance

2012-11-10 Thread Ed LaFrance
Hello Alan - It's also worth noting that, since I have more IPs on the box than the ones that are designated as nameservers, and since I have dns listening on all addresses, I can query named using one of the non-nameserver IPs - and it works fine! For instance: nslookup x.x.x.29 y.y.y.114 S

Re: Need to improve named performance

2012-11-10 Thread Ed LaFrance
Hello Alan - I will do an upgrade as soon as I get chance - a bit tied up right now. But in any case, since I posted this I've done some query logging for a bit and find that I'm getting an average of about 60 queries per second. All the dns queries are coming in via udp - the connections I me

Re: Need to improve named performance

2012-11-10 Thread Alan Clegg
On Nov 10, 2012, at 1:39 PM, Ed LaFrance wrote: > When I check the router above this server I'll see 200 - 500 legitimate > connections to this server at any given time. Having sent my snarky "update" e-mail, I now ask... you say later in the mail that you are doing about 20 queries per secon

Re: Need to improve named performance

2012-11-10 Thread Alan Clegg
On Nov 10, 2012, at 1:39 PM, Ed LaFrance wrote: > Running BIND 9.3.6-P1-RedHat-9.3.6-16.P1.el5 Before everyone else says it... upgrade. AlanC -- Alan Clegg | +1-919-355-8851 | a...@clegg.com signature.asc Description: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail __

Need to improve named performance

2012-11-10 Thread Ed LaFrance
Hello all - First post to this list, hope I'm on the right place. Running BIND 9.3.6-P1-RedHat-9.3.6-16.P1.el5 on a quadcore xeon server (3Ghz) with 2GB RAM. Named is being used only for rDNS queries against our address space. The issue is that named is not keeping up with rdns requests. The