Hi--

On Jan 27, 2010, at 1:15 PM, James Smallacombe wrote:
>>> Jan 26 21:50:32 host named[667]: client <IP REMOVED>#57938: error sending 
>>> response: not enough free resources
>>> Jan 26 21:50:32 host named[667]: client <IP REMOVED>#59830: error sending 
>>> response: not enough free resources
>> 
>> Were these client IPs expected to be talking to this machine?  It
> 
> This server is authoritative for a few hundred domains, so I would imagine 
> anybody doing a query on any of them would need to talk to it...unless I 
> misunderstand what you mean by "talk".

OK, if the nameserver is published / authoritative, then it would be expected 
to be fielding requests from the Internet at large.

>> indicates a problem sending UDP traffic; netstat -s output would be
> 
> Unfortunately, I did not have time for netstats or tcpdumps when this was 
> happening and I've not seen this log entry since yesterday evening.

Unless you rebooted the machine again since the errors were reported, the 
netstat output would still be relevant.

>> informative.  You might find that setting options in named.conf to tune the 
>> # of outstanding queries will help:
>> 
>> clients-per-query 10;
>> max-clients-per-query 20;
> 
> Thanks, I will look into those.  the man page for named.conf doesn't tell you 
> much and my latest cricket book is 3rd edition (only up to BIND 8), so I 
> guess it's time to break down and get the latest.

Good luck....

-- 
-Chuck

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