no more recursive clients: quota reached

[Cricket Liu]

Greg Robinson wrote:
> Our internet link is down at the moment (but it won't be if you can
> read this).  We are seeing these error messages on or internal DNS
> server: 
> 
> Feb  3 14:33:07 hostname syslog: client 172.16.2.42#25930: no more
> recursive clients: quota reached 
> 
> For a whole bunch of IP addresses.  A few are DNS servers, most are
> mail or proxy servers.
> 
> I can't find any reference to this in the BIND book,

"DNS and BIND," fourth edition, page 292.

> but my guess
> is that the DNS server has given up (quota reached) on trying to
> resolve domains for this IP address.  And I can safely ignore the
> message. 
> 
> Does this sound about right?

It means that your name server has reached its limit on concurrent
recursive queries (probably because each one is taking a long time,
because the link is down).  

cricket

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