From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Feb 7 5:11:16 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from orion.buckhorn.net (orion.buckhorn.net [63.151.7.243]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 165DF37B401 for ; Wed, 7 Feb 2001 05:10:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from buckhorn.net (localhost.buckhorn.net.net [127.0.0.1]) by orion.buckhorn.net (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f17DAnM09411 for ; Wed, 7 Feb 2001 07:10:50 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from bob@buckhorn.net) Message-ID: <3A814959.3053B550@buckhorn.net> Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2001 07:10:49 -0600 From: Bob Martin X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cost of denying use of dns References: <026001c090d9$1f8b4de0$0e00a8c0@neland.dk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Leif Neland wrote: > > I've set our nameserver to only allow recursive lookups for our own customers. > > However, now I wonder if it is more "expensive" to deny the lookup and write the reject to a logfile than just go ahead and answer. > > Leif > It won't use more resouces (except disk space). You could just log those rejects to the bit bucket. Bob Martin -- As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality. -- Albert Einstein To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message