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[mike <mike AT pikeaero.com>]

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Just having a second look at everything here...Yeah, I'm definately not
imagining this:

http://8bit.zapto.org/uploads/19jul2011-named.jpg

It seems to be in the steady increase at this moment. Just looking at
netstat it's all random IP addresses, so does not seem to be an attack.

A couple days ago, this system was barely feeling the DNS load, now
suddenly it's on it's knees just about.

- --Mike


On 11-06-19 08:11 PM, Mike Sharkey wrote:
> Any other ops noticing a sharp increase in DNS traffic since late
> yesterday or so?
> 
> I don't keep any logs, so I can't give a detailed report, but 'named'
> CPU usage has climbed significantly along with UDP traffic on port 53.
> 
> I'm just trying to estimate if this is a trend or if this is a once-time
> event of some sort. If it's a trend then I probably need to start
> budgeting for some hardware upgrades at some point, my DNS is running
> only on a single core, 32-bit 2GHz CPU @ 1.5 GB RAM. I've got plenty of
> RAM, but 'named' since perhaps around midnight last night has the CPU
> pegged at 45-55%.
> 
> --Mike
> 
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