On 4/17/2005 12:29 PM, Florian Weimer wrote: > * Sean Donelan: > >>Perhaps your DNS software also has a memory leak? Anyone know which >>software Comcast was using? Should other ISPs be concerned they might >>have the same latent problem in their systems? > > Probably yes, especially if they don't read documentation of their DNS > software. > > | The maximum amount of memory to use for the server's cache, in > | bytes. [...] The default is unlimited, meaning that records are > | purged from the cache only when their TTLs expire.
That was my first guess too. Most DNS servers don't even have this switch. -- Eric A. Hall http://www.ehsco.com/ Internet Core Protocols http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/coreprot/