[80738] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: DNS requests and Bandwidth
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Vixie)
Wed May 11 13:59:27 2005
To: nanog@merit.edu
From: Paul Vixie <vixie@vix.com>
Date: 11 May 2005 17:59:00 +0000
In-Reply-To: <FCD26398C5EDE746BFC47F43EA52A1730107970A@dino.int.hostasaurus.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
> > 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.
with BIND9, you just have to install a zone by that name, containing an
A/127.0.0.1 for every name you're seeing queries for. that'll get action
by whoever made the mistaken delegation toward your server... (i promise.)
--
Paul Vixie
