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From: Mike Hoskins (mike_at_adept.org)
Date: Wed Jan 22 2003 - 13:27:38 CST

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    On Tue, 21 Jan 2003, Ronan Lucio wrote:
    > > 1. BIND crashes.
    > > 2. DNS requests keep coming in, at a rate of 231 per second.
    > > 3. FreeBSD limits the number of icmp unreach responses, and tells you.
    > > 4. You restart BIND, and messages go away.
    > > I can't answer why step #1 occured, but I can assure you that #2 through
    > > #4 are natural results of #1, and are nothing to worry about it.

    See bind9-users for that. (Recent discussion.)

    > I think a good solution is install a DJB DNS Cache and leave it
    > just to answer DNS queries.

    If you can stand DJB's rhetoric. Sure, he seems like a smart enough
    guy... If he wasn't such an a$$. I guess that's a problem with a lot of
    "smart" people though. 

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