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It now appears that a third large DNS deployment saw a five-fold increase of DNS traffic world wide at exactly the times mentioned in the posting to the dns-operations mailing list. Could PowerDNS Recursor operators with graphs check out if they saw anything anomalous on the 28th of January 03:40:44 CET (28th of January 02:40:44 UTC, 27th of January 21:40:44 EST, plus or minus 2 seconds) Thanks! On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 05:38:59PM +0100, bert hubert wrote: > To all PowerDNS Recursor users, > > We've received two simultaneous reports of stability problems in the > PowerDNS Recursor. There is reason to believe these problems (crashes) are > caused by third parties. > > Action needed > ------------- > All operators are urged to keep a close eye on their installations, and > possibly to make sure that a crashed recursor is restarted swiftly. > > A way to do this is to run the Recursor like this: > > # while true; do /usr/sbin/pdns_recursor --daemon=no; done > > This command should preferably be run inside 'screen', or something else > that preserves the console connection (nohup, for example). > > Further things you can do > ------------------------- > If you observe stability issues, please email me privately. > > We will keep you updated as the situation develops. > > Kind regards, > > Bert Hubert _______________________________________________ Pdns-users mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.powerdns.com/mailman/listinfo/pdns-users
