Re: difference in dnscache installs

richard lucassen <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.djbdns
Organization XAQ Systems
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Mon, 18 Jan 2010 21:02:13 -0800 (PST)
Joseph Tam <[email protected]> wrote:

> > I have quite a few dnscache instances running here and there and
> > there are two instances on the same subnet having problems querying:
> >
> > www.ikea.com
> >
> > When querying these names manually using dnsq, I run into a CNAME
> > hell.
> 
> Indeed.  I ran these queries through
> 
>  	http://www.squish.net/dnscheck/
> 
> and I had to bump the max. depth query to over 12 (but less than 16)
> to get the query to work for www.ikea.com.
> 
> But strangely enough, my almost unpatched dnscache seemed to resolve
> most of them.

The thing is that I have around 180 dnscache running and none of these
show this problem. Only these two. The only difference is:

cat DATALIMIT CACHESIZE 
44000000
40000000

These two instances of dnscache are quite busy indeed. 

R.

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