BIND 8.2.3 verus 9.x.x ?? in production

Nate Duehr nate at natetech.com
Mon Mar 26 22:17:39 UTC 2001


On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 05:56:52PM +0000, peter at icke-reklam.ipsec.nu.invalid wrote:
> > Let's just say I have a customer with a penchant for reverse lookups he
> > doesn't need... and leave it at that.  14 web servers doing 40+ Mbs of
> > traffic can create a lot of in-addr.arpa lookups!  The application is
> > horribly misconfigured, but who am I to explain that to him when "his
> > last ISP handled it just fine"?  :-)  Gotta love it.
> 
> What do you think the customer want's in his webserver logs ? Ip-adresses or
> domain names ?  
> Chances are that domain names are more useful, then you _want_ full DNS.

Yes, but when one webserver front-ends another one he doesn't need to do
full reverse lookups on BOTH machines.  Now take that out to 14 machines
and you start to see the problem... :-)

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