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Re: QDNS still crashing

From: Jerry Pasker
Date: Friday, December 29, 2000
Time: 11:41:44 am

>We installed IPNMonitor in order to packet sniff our QDNS box
>http://www.sustworks.com/site/prod_ipmonitor.html and found that a customer
>had something running that was causing it to crash: it would leave a stream
>open, then another, then another. until our box blew up!
>
>I am yet to hear from him what exact program he upgraded/changed on his
>server that is doing this, but have an access list in to block him from my
>dns server at the router level and my crashing stopped.
>
>My guess is that there is something in another commonly used dns package
>that brings QDNS to its knees. Knowing this guy, I doubt it is anything NT
>and is most likely bind8 under linux that he is running. I believe that if
>the stream wait period were shortened under QDNS so that it threw out or
>close down old requests sooner, it would at least temporarily solve the
>problem.
>
>Dave Spaulding
>dave@mva.net

Do you run into any performance issues with IP Net Monitor?

-Jerry

(I'm downloading it now)







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