High named CPU every 10 minutes?

[Doug Barton]

+1

The FreeBSD base system BIND is there primarily to provide a local 
resolver. In the event that you are doing more serious DNS work (such as 
authoritative DNS, a resolver for the local network, etc.) the 
expectation is that you will update to a more recent version of BIND. 
Using the ports this is quite easily done, and all you have to do in 
rc.conf is to change named_program to /usr/local/sbin/named.

I recommend that you install /usr/ports/dns/bind97.


Good luck,

Doug


On Thu, 18 Nov 2010, Joao Damas wrote:

> For recursive DNS servers, please run something that is 9.5 or later as there were significant improvements in the cache handing that address what you are describing
>
> Joao
>
> On 17 Nov 2010, at 20:26, blrmaani wrote:
>
>> I see a peculiar behavior on my DNS server. The named CPU reaches 90%
>> + every 10 minutes and my monitoring software keeps paging me.
>>
>> I have a DNS host running FreeBSD 7.x, running BIND 9.4.x on a 2-CPU
>> machine with 4GB RAM. It is a recursive DNS server.
>>
>> Any pointers on how to find out the reason for high CPU. I know that
>> this machine is not DDOSed
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Maani
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