From owner-freebsd-net Fri Aug 3 2:50: 0 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from srv1.cosmo-project.de (srv1.cosmo-project.de [213.83.6.106]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E303D37B406; Fri, 3 Aug 2001 02:49:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ticso@mail.cicely.de) Received: from mail.cicely.de (cicely20 [10.1.1.22]) by srv1.cosmo-project.de (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id f739ktV45602; Fri, 3 Aug 2001 11:46:55 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from ticso@localhost) by mail.cicely.de (8.11.0/8.11.0) id f739koY02574; Fri, 3 Aug 2001 11:46:50 +0200 (CEST) Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2001 11:46:49 +0200 From: Bernd Walter To: Andre Oppermann Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 303,000 routes in kernel Message-ID: <20010803114648.A2565@cicely20.cicely.de> References: <3B69CE3F.1BCCB280@telehouse.ch> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3B69CE3F.1BCCB280@telehouse.ch>; from oppermann@telehouse.ch on Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 12:03:43AM +0200 X-Operating-System: NetBSD cicely20.cicely.de 1.5 sparc Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 12:03:43AM +0200, Andre Oppermann wrote: > The problem I've got now is that for every packet I get the kernel is > making one host entry in the routing table. Because of the many UDP > DNS requests from all over the world I've got 303'000 (yes, three- > hundredthreethousand) entries in the kernel routing table which have > not expired yet. So I'm getting error messages like this now: Are you shure that these are not created via redirects when sending the packet? You might try to disable acepting redirects via sysctl and/or setting the routes so that packets have a better chance to be send to the right router. -- B.Walter COSMO-Project http://www.cosmo-project.de ticso@cicely.de Usergroup info@cosmo-project.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message