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DNS requests and Bandwidth
From: "aljuhani" <info () riyadmail com>
Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 19:30:35 +0300
Hello List. We have one domain setup on our server dns but there is no website or email configured .. Recently we've noticed some increase in server Bandwidth usage and after using tcpdump, we were able to find the problem which is a DNS server on the Internet sending many queries per second to resolve MX , A records for that domain which is not existing of course but it keeps asking. One way was to block requests from that DNS IP but that was not practicle as many users on that DNS won't be able to communicate with our server. so What is the best way to prevent DNS queries consuming bandwidth. tcpdump output extract: 14:40:09.407336 212.26.72.85.34997 > ns.MyNameServer.net.domain: 51794 MX? MyDomain.com. (29)(DF) 14:40:09.411707 212.26.72.85.34997 > ns.MyNameServer.net.domain: 14233 A? MyDomain.com. (29) (DF) 14:40:09.415880 212.26.72.85.34997 > ns.MyNameServer.net.domain: 39317 MX? MyDomain.com. (29) (DF) 14:40:09.419827 212.26.72.85.34997 > ns.MyNameServer.net.domain: 49503 A? MyDomain.com. (29) (DF) 14:40:09.423700 212.26.72.85.34997 > ns.MyNameServer.net.domain: 29362 A? MyDomain.com. (29) (DF) 14:40:09.426963 212.26.72.85.34997 > ns.MyNameServer.net.domain: 16692 A? MyDomain.com. (29) (DF) 14:40:09.430590 212.26.72.85.34997 > ns.MyNameServer.net.domain: 65288 A? MyDomain.com. (29) (DF) 14:40:09.434350 212.26.72.85.34997 > ns.MyNameServer.net.domain: 1341 A? MyDomain.com. (29) (DF) 14:40:09.438163 212.26.72.85.34997 > ns.MyNameServer.net.domain: 57932 A? MyDomain.com. (29) (DF) --- -aljuhani
Current thread:
- DNS requests and Bandwidth aljuhani (May 11)
- Re: DNS requests and Bandwidth Gadi Evron (May 11)
- Re: DNS requests and Bandwidth Steven J. Sobol (May 11)
- Re: DNS requests and Bandwidth Will Yardley (May 11)
- Re: DNS requests and Bandwidth aljuhani (May 11)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- RE: DNS requests and Bandwidth David Hubbard (May 11)
- Re: DNS requests and Bandwidth Paul Vixie (May 11)
- Re: DNS requests and Bandwidth Gadi Evron (May 11)