Re: BIND and UDP tuning

2018-09-27 Thread Lee
On 9/27/18, Alex wrote: > Hi, > >> Just a wild thought: >> It works with a lower speed line (at least I read it that way) but has >> problems with higher speeds. >> Could it be that the line is so fast that it "overtakes" the host in >> question? >> >> A faster incoming line will give less time

Re: BIND and UDP tuning

2018-09-27 Thread Noel Butler
Hi Alex, Have you tried on a separate physical server? To rule out the actual hardware as being the problem? Is this some user grade PC with either onboard or external ethernet interface, or a proper server grade equipment? Age of equipment? What else does that machine do? Cheers On

Re: BIND and UDP tuning

2018-09-27 Thread Alex
Hi, > Just a wild thought: > It works with a lower speed line (at least I read it that way) but has > problems with higher speeds. > Could it be that the line is so fast that it "overtakes" the host in question? > > A faster incoming line will give less time between the packets for processing.

Re: BIND and UDP tuning

2018-09-27 Thread Ben Croswell
When we ran into UDP tuning issues on high traffic devices it presented as silent discards rather than SERVFAIL. On Thu, Sep 27, 2018, 12:04 PM Alex wrote: > Hi, > > > On Thu, Sep 27, 2018 at 10:53:25AM -0400, Alex wrote: > > > Many of these values I've already tweaked and have had no effect on

Re: BIND and UDP tuning

2018-09-27 Thread Alex
Hi, > > This is also only happening on the two identical systems connected > > to the 165/35mbit cable modem. > > ... > > I really hope there is > someone with some additional ideas. > > Is it the modem? No, it's been replaced at least once, and I've been assured by both the cable tech that was

Re: BIND and UDP tuning

2018-09-27 Thread Alex
Hi, > On Thu, Sep 27, 2018 at 10:53:25AM -0400, Alex wrote: > > Many of these values I've already tweaked and have had no effect on my > > SERVFAIL issues :-( > > If you are getting SERVFAILs from a BIND resolver you administer, then > it has responded to your query. If you turn up the log level

Re: BIND and UDP tuning

2018-09-27 Thread G.W. Haywood via bind-users
Hi there, On Thu, 27 Sep 2018, Alex wrote This is also only happening on the two identical systems connected to the 165/35mbit cable modem. ... I really hope there is > someone with some additional ideas. Is it the modem? -- 73, Ged. ___ Please

Re: BIND and UDP tuning

2018-09-27 Thread Mukund Sivaraman
On Thu, Sep 27, 2018 at 10:53:25AM -0400, Alex wrote: > Many of these values I've already tweaked and have had no effect on my > SERVFAIL issues :-( If you are getting SERVFAILs from a BIND resolver you administer, then it has responded to your query. If you turn up the log level to something

Re: BIND and UDP tuning

2018-09-27 Thread Sten Carlsen
On 27/09/2018 16.53, Alex wrote: > Hi, > >>> I reported a few weeks ago that I was experiencing a really high >>> number of "SERVFAIL" messages in my bind-9.11.4-P1 system running on >>> fedora28, and I haven't yet found a solution. This is all now running >>> on a 165/35 cable system. >>> >>> I

Re: NTP through DNS?

2018-09-27 Thread Bob McDonald
Having multiple CNAME records for the same hsotname is a violation of rfc1034. (that and bind9 won't allow it...) Surely there must be some creative solution which doesn't a) violate the DNS specs and b) doesn't suggest the use of deprecated software (bind8). Regards, Bob

Re: BIND and UDP tuning

2018-09-27 Thread Alex
Hi, > > I reported a few weeks ago that I was experiencing a really high > > number of "SERVFAIL" messages in my bind-9.11.4-P1 system running on > > fedora28, and I haven't yet found a solution. This is all now running > > on a 165/35 cable system. > > > > I found a program named dropwatch which

RE: BIND and UDP tuning

2018-09-27 Thread Browne, Stuart via bind-users
> -Original Message- > From: Tony Finch [mailto:d...@dotat.at] > > > - { name: 'net.ipv4.tcp_sack', value: 0 } > > Why? SACK is super important for TCP performance over links that have any > degree of lossiness, and I don't recall hearing of any caveats. > > Tony. > -- >

RE: BIND and UDP tuning

2018-09-27 Thread Tony Finch
Browne, Stuart via bind-users wrote: > - { name: 'net.ipv4.tcp_sack', value: 0 } Why? SACK is super important for TCP performance over links that have any degree of lossiness, and I don't recall hearing of any caveats. Tony. -- f.anthony.n.finchhttp://dotat.at/ a just distribution