recursive clients quota problem ?

[Mark_Andrews at isc.org]

> Hi,
> 
> Im using Bind 9.2.1 on Solaris 8, 64-bits compilation with Gcc 3.1 on a
> Sun Netra T1 200 server. 
> 
> Yesterday, my master server did not want to answer recursive queries, it
> said "SERVFAIL". I saw the following lines in the log :
> 
> Aug 25 22:06:14 ns1 named[471]: [ID 866145 daemon.warning] client
> 193.149.100.90#3012: no more recursive clients: quota reached
> 
> So, I had a look to the documentation, I tried to increase
> recursive-clients to 2000 and reloaded bind. 5 minutes later, it was the
> same problem. In all cases, I cant see more than 25 recursive queries
> per second on my statistics so I cant understand this behaviour...
> Then, I restart Bind, and it is ok now.
> 
> Is there any bug ?
> Any informations would be appreciated, thx in advance
> 
> 
> Alexis Albinet
> 

	Named will try for up to 90 seconds to resolve a recursive query.

		25*90 > 2000

	Now you really need to go and find out which queries are failing
	and fix the cause.

	Mark
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