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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Hi,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>I'm not really sure what to do about this. I'm
running Bind 9 on FreeBSD. Suddenly this morning I began noticing the following
in /var/log/messages:<BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Aug 26 12:48:56 netlink named[295]: client
207.191.185.6#60614: no more recursiv<BR>e clients: quota reached<BR>Aug 26
12:48:56 netlink named[295]: client 207.191.185.6#51149: no more recursiv<BR>e
clients: quota reached<BR>Aug 26 12:48:58 netlink named[295]: client
207.191.185.6#56825: no more recursiv<BR>e clients: quota
reached<BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>The client in question (206.191.185.6) is our mail
server. I read that one should not allow recursive queries from outside of your
network, but the mail server is within our network. Also on the mail server, the
mail queue currently has about 40 entries. It usually has from 2 - 5 or is
empty.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Our DNS server is not heavily used, so I assumed it
would be OK to increase the number of recursive queries allowd. In
/etc/named.conf I inserted the following:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2
face=Arial>recursive-clients
5000;</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>then restarted bind. That didn't seem to help much,
I am still getting the same error message in /var/log/messages on an
intermittent basis. Also, if I do a rncd status I see the
following:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>number of zones: 14<BR>debug level: 0<BR>xfers
running: 0<BR>xfers deferred: 0<BR>soa queries in progress: 0<BR>query logging
is OFF<BR>recursive clients: 564/1000<BR>tcp clients: 0/100<BR>server is up and
running<BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>The lins recursive clients: 564/1000 bothers me,
did my change to /etc/named.conf not get oicked up? It appears that the max
recursive clients is still at bind's default of 1000.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Any ideas on how I should go about solving/fixing
this?<BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Thanks,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Lisa Casey</FONT></DIV>
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