Re: Rate-limiting - working? How to test?

2014-01-17 Thread John Horne
On 17/01/14 14:22, Rich Goodson wrote: > You need a rate-limit log stanza to see rate limiting information (rate limiting from IP address, no longer > limiting from IP address, etc), and the individual queries that are not responded to are logged either in > your querylog or query-errors (can’

Re: Rate-limiting - working? How to test?

2014-01-17 Thread Rich Goodson
John, "log-only yes;" is the reason you are not seeing any rate limiting. You are telling your server not to actually do any rate limiting, just to log what it would have done. You didn’t post any more of your named.conf, but I would assume you don’t have any logging set up for rate limiting

Re: Rate-limiting - working? How to test?

2014-01-17 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 01:34:00PM +, John Horne wrote a message of 40 lines which said: > log-only yes; >From the ARM: Use log-only yes to test rate limiting parameters without actually dropping any requests. > I get 10 correct responses. It makes sense.

Rate-limiting - working? How to test?

2014-01-17 Thread John Horne
Hello, I have BIND 9.9.4 installed on a server, and have included in the global options: rate-limit { responses-per-second 5; log-only yes; }; However, if I run from a client: for n in `seq 1 10`; do dig +short jhorne.csd.plymouth.ac.uk a @1