[80730] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: DNS requests and Bandwidth
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Hubbard)
Wed May 11 12:39:17 2005
Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 12:38:47 -0400
From: "David Hubbard" <dhubbard@dino.hostasaurus.com>
To: <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
From: aljuhani
>=20
> =20
> One way was to block requests from that DNS IP but that was not
> practicle as many users on that DNS won't be able to communicate
> with our server.
> =20
> so What is the best way to prevent DNS queries consuming bandwidth.
Run an authoritative-only DNS server that won't respond
to queries for domains it doesn't handle. tinydns from
http://cr.yp.to/djbdns.html would be an example.
David
