Date: Sat, 04 Aug 2001 11:01:35 +0200 From: Andre Oppermann <oppermann@telehouse.ch> To: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 303,000 routes in kernel Message-ID: <3B6BB9EF.1922470@telehouse.ch> References: <20010803190059.A63933811@overcee.netplex.com.au>
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Peter Wemm wrote: > > Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > > In message <3B69CE3F.1BCCB280@telehouse.ch>, Andre Oppermann writes: > > > > >The problem I've got now is that for every packet I get the kernel is > > >making one host entry in the routing table. Because of the many UDP > > >DNS requests from all over the world I've got 303'000 (yes, three- > > >hundredthreethousand) entries in the kernel routing table which have > > >not expired yet. So I'm getting error messages like this now: > > > > Hmm, I wasn't aware that we cloned routes for UDP packets, are you sure > > that is what is causing the routes to exists ? (Just to mention the > > obvious: it's not CodeRed probes ?) > > Dont forget that DNS can query you over tcp as well.. This machine (with djb tinydns) does not have tcp queries enabled. So this can't be the source of the route entries. -- Andre To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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