Public bug reported: The default timeout for TCP connections on port 53 to named/bind9 is 300 seconds. The upstream ISC build of bind9 uses this and honors an overrides you set in the config files.
The Ubuntu packaged version of bind9 seems to hold idle connections forever, eventually exhausting the allowed open socket limit and refusing to service any more requests. This is reproducible on all of our 20.04 hosts. lsb_release -rd Description: Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS Release: 20.04 Package Version: 1:9.16.1-0ubuntu2.4 500 ** Affects: bind9 (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1909950 Title: TCP connections never close To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/bind9/+bug/1909950/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs