North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Memory leak cause of Comcast DNS problems
* Sean Donelan: > Perhaps your DNS software also has a memory leak? Anyone know which > software Comcast was using? Should other ISPs be concerned they might > have the same latent problem in their systems? Probably yes, especially if they don't read documentation of their DNS software. | The maximum amount of memory to use for the server's cache, in | bytes. [...] The default is unlimited, meaning that records are | purged from the cache only when their TTLs expire. The number of complaints I've heard that "DNS resolvers eat *so* much memory" suggests that few people tweak the default configuration. 8-( However, it's unlikely that this was the cause of Comcast's problems because DNS cache overflows would have an impact on a much larger scale.
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