From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 27 21:15:17 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9095106566B for ; Wed, 27 Jan 2010 21:15:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from up@3.am) Received: from mail.pil.net (ns3.pil.net [209.17.170.205]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9546A8FC08 for ; Wed, 27 Jan 2010 21:15:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 12803 invoked from network); 27 Jan 2010 16:15:16 -0500 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost) (127.0.0.1) by 0 with SMTP; 27 Jan 2010 16:15:16 -0500 Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 16:15:16 -0500 (EST) From: James Smallacombe X-X-Sender: up@ns3.pil.net To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <979FD2CE-FCCE-4C61-8FA8-74D75E091C43@mac.com> Message-ID: References: <979FD2CE-FCCE-4C61-8FA8-74D75E091C43@mac.com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; format=flowed; charset=US-ASCII Subject: Re: named "error sending response: not enough free resources" X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 21:15:17 -0000 On Wed, 27 Jan 2010, Chuck Swiger wrote: > On Jan 27, 2010, at 10:24 AM, James Smallacombe wrote: >> NOTE: Please reply off-list as well as I am not subscribed > > OK. In return, please don't cross-post or multi-post the same question > to multiple FreeBSD lists. I posted to the -isp list a couple of hours earlier, then looked at the archives and noticed zero traffic on that list for the past couple of weeks, so I then posted here. >> After getting home, I looked in the syslog and see thousands of these: >> >> Jan 26 21:50:32 host named[667]: client #57938: error sending response: not enough free resources >> Jan 26 21:50:32 host named[667]: client #59830: error sending response: not enough free resources > > Were these client IPs expected to be talking to this machine? It This server is authoritative for a few hundred domains, so I would imagine anybody doing a query on any of them would need to talk to it...unless I misunderstand what you mean by "talk". > indicates a problem sending UDP traffic; netstat -s output would be Unfortunately, I did not have time for netstats or tcpdumps when this was happening and I've not seen this log entry since yesterday evening. > informative. You might find that setting options in named.conf to tune > the # of outstanding queries will help: > > clients-per-query 10; > max-clients-per-query 20; Thanks, I will look into those. the man page for named.conf doesn't tell you much and my latest cricket book is 3rd edition (only up to BIND 8), so I guess it's time to break down and get the latest. James Smallacombe PlantageNet, Inc. CEO and Janitor up@3.am http://3.am =========================================================================