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[Alex Hanselka <alex AT hanselka.name>]

It turns out that by default, the BIND cache is unlimited which it 
stores in memory. That can be changed in the named.conf which I have 
done. I have also limited the number of concurrent recursive connections 
possible at one time.

So far that seems to be working, I'll let you all know about further 
developments.

On 2/19/2012 6:01 PM, Peter Green wrote:
> Just a thought... how about a cron job running a shell script that restarts 
> BIND however often you think necessary?
>
> Peter
>
> Wanged from my Kaiser by a mischievous pixie!
>
> Alex Hanselka<alex AT hanselka.name>  wrote:
>
> > Does anyone have any fixes on BIND slowly (but surely) taking up all the
> > RAM on a system, eventually causing it to be killed by the kernel for OOM?
> >
> > Thanks for any help :)