Re: Re: clients-per-query vs max-clients-per-query

2014-06-08 Thread Timothe Litt
On 07-Jun-14 12:36, Evan Hunt wrote: On Sat, Jun 07, 2014 at 12:02:24PM -0400, Jorge Fábregas wrote: For me, this clients-per-query of 10 is an upper limit (maximum number of clients before it starts dropping). So then, what's the purpose of max-clients-per-query? Over time, as it runs

Re: Re: clients-per-query vs max-clients-per-query

2014-06-08 Thread Evan Hunt
On Sun, Jun 08, 2014 at 09:45:23AM -0400, Timothe Litt wrote: Consider a continuous stream of queries to a slow server. For the sake of exposition, assume the incremental adjustment is 1 rather than 5. Named drops the 11th query, but increases the limit. It only increases the limit if one

clients-per-query vs max-clients-per-query

2014-06-07 Thread Jorge Fábregas
Hi, I'm trying to understand the difference between clients-per-query max-clients-per-query. I found a nice explanation by Mark Andrews here [1] but then I wondered about max-clients-per-query. Given a clients-per-query of 10, I assume that named will only queue up 10 clients before it starts

Re: clients-per-query vs max-clients-per-query

2014-06-07 Thread Evan Hunt
On Sat, Jun 07, 2014 at 12:02:24PM -0400, Jorge Fábregas wrote: For me, this clients-per-query of 10 is an upper limit (maximum number of clients before it starts dropping). So then, what's the purpose of max-clients-per-query? Over time, as it runs, named tries to self-tune the clients-per

Re: clients-per-query vs max-clients-per-query

2014-06-07 Thread Jorge Fábregas
On 06/07/2014 12:36 PM, Evan Hunt wrote: Over time, as it runs, named tries to self-tune the clients-per-query value. If you set clients-per-query to 10 and max-clients-per-query to 100 (i.e., the default values), that means that the initial limit will be 10, but if we ever actually hit

Re: clients-per-query increased to 15

2013-04-10 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 09.04.13 13:56, Dwayne Hottinger wrote: Ive started having some issues with one of my subnets. Im seeing messages like the following in my log files: clients-per-query increased to 15 This apply to recursive queries. Don't you have a malware on the network? If not, this is just

clients-per-query

2013-04-10 Thread Dwayne Hottinger
I keep seeing messages in my named.log file that say things like clients-per-query increased to 30, then later it says clients-per-query decreased to a lower number. When this happens, lookups seem to not be working.What is an acceptable value for a large network? ddh -- Dwayne Hottinger

Re: clients-per-query

2013-04-10 Thread WBrown
From: Dwayne Hottinger dhottin...@harrisonburg.k12.va.us I keep seeing messages in my named.log file that say things like clients-per-query increased to 30, then later it says clients- per-query decreased to a lower number. When this happens, lookups seem to not be working.What

Re: clients-per-query

2013-04-10 Thread Dwayne Hottinger
Sorry, My spambox grabbed your earlier reply, my apologies.My clients are a mixed enviroment of macs,windows 7/xp, androids, etc. At any one time I'll have over 3000 devices connected to the network. I actually have one internal dns server for internal network and 2 external dns servers. I

Re: clients-per-query

2013-04-10 Thread WBrown
Dwayne Hottinger dhottin...@harrisonburg.k12.va.us wrote on 04/10/2013 10:27:24 AM: Sorry, My spambox grabbed your earlier reply, my apologies.My clients are a mixed enviroment of macs,windows 7/xp, androids, etc. At any one time I'll have over 3000 devices connected to the network.

Re: clients-per-query

2013-04-10 Thread Dwayne Hottinger
3000 devices isn't much, even for a modest BIND server. Did this configuration work in the past? What changed? Is there a network rate limiting device in place that could be affecting the queries to the authoritative servers? Have you talked to your networking team? They would never make

clients-per-query increased to 15

2013-04-09 Thread Dwayne Hottinger
Ive started having some issues with one of my subnets. Im seeing messages like the following in my log files: clients-per-query increased to 15 I did a little googling and found where this is adjustable per the named.conf. I currently dont have anything in my named.conf that outlines

Question About max-clients-per-query

2011-11-18 Thread Alan Shackelford
I had a situation a couple of days ago where a compromised machine in the DMZ portion of my network began sending an incredible number of queries to a couple of the primary internal DNS servers. The traffic was so intense that legitimate queries were unable to get through, or the customer timed

RE: Question About max-clients-per-query

2011-11-18 Thread Lightner, Jeff
=water@lists.isc.org] On Behalf Of Alan Shackelford Sent: Friday, November 18, 2011 10:32 AM To: bind-users@lists.isc.org Subject: Question About max-clients-per-query I had a situation a couple of days ago where a compromised machine in the DMZ portion of my network began sending

Re: Question About max-clients-per-query

2011-11-18 Thread Fr34k
Hello, Read the BIND ARM (Admin Ref. Manual) about these settings, but here is an example of what I use:     clients-per-query 10 ;     max-clients-per-query 20 ; http://www.isc.org/software/bind/documentation Previously, this resource was posted on this list which is good info

Re: Q on clients-per-query, max-clients-per-query

2011-03-24 Thread Fr34k
- Original Message From: Mark Andrews To: Fr34k Cc: Bindlist Sent: Wed, March 23, 2011 9:04:00 PM Subject: Re: Q on clients-per-query, max-clients-per-query In message , Fr34k writes: Hello, # The ARM says: # clients-per-query, max-clients-per-query These set

Re: Q on clients-per-query, max-clients-per-query

2011-03-24 Thread Cathy Almond
So, does BIND behave the same whether it is a single PC making 100 queries for the same record compared to 555 PCs making queries for the same record? That is, how does BIND treat clients-per-query, max-clients-per-query differently based upon the query requesters' IP address(es)? (I

Re: Q on clients-per-query, max-clients-per-query

2011-03-24 Thread Mark Andrews
In message 688460.82562...@web121414.mail.ne1.yahoo.com, Fr34k writes: - Original Message From: Mark Andrews To: Fr34k Cc: Bindlist Sent: Wed, March 23, 2011 9:04:00 PM Subject: Re: Q on clients-per-query, max-clients-per-query In message , Fr34k writes: Hello

Q on clients-per-query, max-clients-per-query

2011-03-23 Thread Fr34k
Hello, # The ARM says: # clients-per-query, max-clients-per-query These set the initial value (minimum) and maximum number of recursive simultaneous clients for any given query (qname,qtype,qclass) that the server will accept before dropping additional clients. named will attempt to self tune

Re: Q on clients-per-query, max-clients-per-query

2011-03-23 Thread Mark Andrews
In message 60834.75625...@web121403.mail.ne1.yahoo.com, Fr34k writes: Hello, # The ARM says: # clients-per-query, max-clients-per-query These set the initial value (minimum) and maximum number of recursive simultaneous clients for any given query (qname,qtype,qclass) that the serv er

clients-per-query message is harmful or not?

2009-12-22 Thread MontyRee
Hello, all. my system is centos 4.x, bind 9.5.1-P3 and only recursion is allowed from some ranges. I can see lots of messages like below. so if I didn't set any clients-per-query value,some clients' queries may be droppped or not? If some queries can be dropped,I want to set like clients

Re: clients-per-query message is harmful or not?

2009-12-22 Thread Mark Andrews
In message blu149-w57a261f59f90728f956cea85...@phx.gbl, MontyRee writes: Hello, all. my system is centos 4.x, bind 9.5.1-P3 and only recursion is allowed from some ranges. I can see lots of messages like below. so if I didn't set any clients-per-query value,some clients' queries may

AW: file descriptors and max-clients-per-query

2009-05-27 Thread Philippe Maechler
security.jail.allow_raw_sockets: 0 The only limits I set in named.conf is ttl-stuff (lame-ttl, max-ncache-ttl, ...), clients-per-query and recursive-clients If I see the message again I'll let you know. Philippe ___ bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https

Re: AW: file descriptors and max-clients-per-query

2009-05-26 Thread JINMEI Tatuya / 神明達哉
At Thu, 14 May 2009 17:46:42 +0200, Philippe Maechler pmaechler...@glattnet.ch wrote: I'm running a bind 9.4.2-p2 and a 9.5.1-P1 both on a FreeBSD 6.x box as caching servers. let's call them ns1 and ns2 :P short after we shutdown server one we get error messages on the

Re: file descriptors and max-clients-per-query

2009-05-14 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
On Thu, 14 May 2009, Philippe Maechler wrote: Hello Everybody I'm running a bind 9.4.2-p2 and a 9.5.1-P1 both on a FreeBSD 6.x box as caching servers. let's call them ns1 and ns2 :P short after we shutdown server one we get error messages on the other server - socket: too many open file

AW: file descriptors and max-clients-per-query

2009-05-14 Thread Philippe Maechler
Hello Jeremy I'm running a bind 9.4.2-p2 and a 9.5.1-P1 both on a FreeBSD 6.x box as caching servers. let's call them ns1 and ns2 :P short after we shutdown server one we get error messages on the other server - socket: too many open file descriptors What is the other