Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 16:15:16 -0500 (EST) From: James Smallacombe <up@3.am> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: named "error sending response: not enough free resources" Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1001271604460.73419@ns3.pil.net> In-Reply-To: <979FD2CE-FCCE-4C61-8FA8-74D75E091C43@mac.com> References: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1001271322250.29151@ns3.pil.net> <979FD2CE-FCCE-4C61-8FA8-74D75E091C43@mac.com>
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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 <IP REMOVED>#57938: error sending response: not enough free resources >> Jan 26 21:50:32 host named[667]: client <IP REMOVED>#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 =========================================================================
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