Question about rndc status

[Mark Andrews]

In message <48DC48CC.70804 at chrysler.com>, Kevin Darcy writes:
> iman wrote:
> > Dear Admins
> > Im not professional in bind,so i confused about some notices in its
> > options.
> > i would be appreciated if someone explain it in details:
> > when i run rndc status some of things it returns are :
> > 1-recursive clients: 476/32668/32768
> > 1-1) what is the meaning of first number:
> > is it define the number of computers use my dns server as their dns
> > server?or some thing else?
> >   
> I believe it's the number of unique IP addresses for which recursive 
> service is currently being performed.

	A client is a individual request.

	When named can determine that multiple request are duplicated
	<src-ip,src-port,qname,type,class,qid> match a existing client
	the second request is dropped.

	Mark
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