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Date:      24 Nov 1999 13:51:44 +0200
From:      Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: named going NUTZ!! UPDATE
Message-ID:  <864secm7jj.fsf@localhost.hell.gr>
In-Reply-To: Pedro Leitao's message of "Tue, 23 Nov 1999 15:19:25 -0500 (EST)"
References:  <389492510.943388365721.JavaMail.root@web01.pub01>

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Pedro Leitao <pedro_leitao@mail.com> writes:

> It turns out that the problem is coming from my secondary DNS server. The
> secondary was doing exactly the same. As soon as I kill named on the
> secondary, the load went down to 0.00 0.00 0.00
> 
> Why would this happen?

Yep, look for those expiry lines.  Every time a secondary's zones
expire, they're updated from the primary name server.  Expiring too late 
means you might not always have the very-latest changes in the records.
Expiring too early means that a lot of cpu time and bandwidth is wasted.

-- 
Giorgos Keramidas, <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
"What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing." [Aristotle]


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