On 6 Sep 2015 at 18:13, Alica wrote: > Well, after days of running I must admit that I underestimated the domestic > querying traffic here in Taiwan. Even if I enabled the *flake* option to > intentionally drop 10% of incoming query, my 384kbps uplink still get jammed > easily and eventually the score falls. > > I'm afraid that the DNS load balancing is broken by design when there > is only several servers available in a zone. If the DNS just throws all 3 > or 4 servers out in a single query, there is no weight difference between > these servers and all servers have the same chance of being queried by > clients. Maybe the DNS shall reply with less IP (1 or 2) in this extreme > condition.
Hi The problem is the clients that are already using your IP address as one of their sources. I changed zone from europe to uk but this had no immediate effect and it took months for traffic to reduce to a more reasonable level (I'm not on an unlimited bandwidth tariff). David -- David Lord <[email protected]> <ftp://ftp.lordynet.org/pub/pgpkeys/[email protected]> <http://www.lordynet.org/pub/pgpkeys/[email protected]> _______________________________________________ pool mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/pool
