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Re: Killing me softly

From: Aaron Lynch
Date: Sunday, November 18, 2001
Time: 12:06:26 pm

On 11/18/01 7:02 AM, Men & Mice Support mashed the following keys :

> What version of QuickDNS? There are bugs in versions prior to the
> current release (3.5.2) that might cause this.
3.0.1 -I'll upgrade them today

> How fast is the QuickDNS machine? How much bandwidth (to the
> Internet) does it have?

The first is a 300Mhz iMac.
Second is a 6100 with a 240MHZ g3 upgrade card.

Both on a t1.

Thanks though. I actually thought I'd upgraded these already.


> ____________________________________________________________________
> Chris Buxton Men & Mice
> support@menandmice.com Making DNS Easy
>
> At 10:15 PM -0800 11/17/01, Aaron Lynch wrote:
>> We have a mail server that has several extremely busy mailing lists. When I
>> point the mailserver at our DNS, it seems as though QDNS stops doing
>> recursion. The server does not crash, but it doesn't answer queries either.
>>
>> Since the server never actually stops, the mail server never moves on to its
>> secondary DNS. Then our mail server (CommunigatePro) starts to time out and
>> the queue grows.
>>
>> At its peak, QDN said it was doing 20-30 requests per sec. I haven't really
>> done a lot of testing, I set the CGP machine to get DNS from our upstream
>> (figuring qwest could cope with it)
>>
>> Any thought or ideas how I should proceed?
>
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