John McMonagle wrote:

> Considerations:
> Do not want to stop lookups of advocap.org
> Don't want to stop transfers to/from slaves. Isn't that via tcp anyway?

Yes, it is.

> 
> advocap.org doesn't have that much to lookup. Only about a dozen entries 
> and  suspect most are for mail.advocap.org www.advocap.org and for spf text.
> 
> Any idea what good limits would be?

I'm using "Limit:none:5,60" and it has slowed the bogus queries reaching
my DNS server down to a trickle.

Legitimate DNS servers should cache any response and since I only have a
few hosts, this seemed like a reasonable setting to me. YYMV.

-Tom
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