On 08/04/13 10:09, Nigel Allen wrote:
> On 07/04/13 10:00, Nigel Allen wrote:
>> Greetings
>>
>> I had been puzzling for a while why my combined mail/web/dns server was
>> getting slower and slower until I realised my mistake. I had
>> inadvertently left my named available for the entire world to do
>> recursive queries on. I have since then fixed the problem by only
>> allowing my 2 local networks the ability. My router (and with it my ADSL
>> connection) however remains plagued with requests.
>>
>>
> Just a quick note of thanks to all who responded. This is obviously not
> going to be a case of instant gratification but your comments have set
> me in the right direction.
>
> Cheers
>
> Nigel.
>
>

As a follow up, the following:

grep denied /var/log/messages*|awk -F " " '{print $7}'|sed
's/#.*//'|sort -u|wc -l

produced 1545.

Looks like it not "just a few" :(

Bugger.

Nigel.

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