[bind10-dev] XFR not expected to answer (was: production experience notes)

[Jeremy C. Reed]

On Tue, 20 Dec 2011, JINMEI Tatuya / ???? wrote:

> It's also strange to me that b10-auth still doesn't consume 100% CPU
> time even if it should be too busy and actually drops queries.
> 
> Maybe related to this point, I guess we should allow b10-auth simply
> returns REFUSED or some other error to xfr requests immediately if
> it's not expected to answer them.  The ability of disabling xfrout is
> nice, but what it currently means that b10-auth tries to forward the
> requests but fails to establish a connection to xfrout (resulting in
> an exception) for every request.  That's an obvious waste, and maybe
> that's the reason for the idle time.

Does the problem with an exception for every request when xfrout is not 
running still happen?

Should we open a trac ticket for this?