You can also put "options rotate" in resolv.conf if you want to spread out the load on the servers.
On Oct 22, 2012, at 6:27 AM, Paolo Supino wrote: > It's not that I don't want to upgrade. I would love to upgrade, but > I'm restricted to what RHN has to offer on the RHEL 5.x channel :-( > > My next step is indeed to offer to put a caching server locally... > > > Thanx > Paolo > > > > On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 1:56 PM, Rainer Gerhards > <[email protected]> wrote: >>> It was brought to my attention that our centralized syslog server >>> (running rsyslog 3.22.1) is creating a lot of DNS queries toward one >>> of our DNS servers (the first one listed in /etc/resolv.conf). From a >>> first look at the amount of queries generated it seems that for every >>> message received rsyslog creates a DNS query. Is my assumption >>> correct? >> >> yes >>> >>> I'm only trying to get confirmation for my first (on the quick) >>> assumption. Not (yet) how to change (i.e. reduce) the situation. >> >> If you do not want to upgrade to a current version, folks have solved this >> with caching resolvers. >> >> Rainer >> _______________________________________________ >> rsyslog mailing list >> http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog >> http://www.rsyslog.com/professional-services/ >> What's up with rsyslog? Follow https://twitter.com/rgerhards >> NOTE WELL: This is a PUBLIC mailing list, posts are ARCHIVED by a myriad of >> sites beyond our control. PLEASE UNSUBSCRIBE and DO NOT POST if you DON'T >> LIKE THAT. > _______________________________________________ > rsyslog mailing list > http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog > http://www.rsyslog.com/professional-services/ > What's up with rsyslog? Follow https://twitter.com/rgerhards > NOTE WELL: This is a PUBLIC mailing list, posts are ARCHIVED by a myriad of > sites beyond our control. PLEASE UNSUBSCRIBE and DO NOT POST if you DON'T > LIKE THAT. -- Jo Rhett Net Consonance : net philanthropy to improve open source and internet projects. _______________________________________________ rsyslog mailing list http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog http://www.rsyslog.com/professional-services/ What's up with rsyslog? Follow https://twitter.com/rgerhards NOTE WELL: This is a PUBLIC mailing list, posts are ARCHIVED by a myriad of sites beyond our control. PLEASE UNSUBSCRIBE and DO NOT POST if you DON'T LIKE THAT.
