Bind9 overloaded, recursive clients and timeout.

[Dave Sparro]

On 2/9/2010 7:28 PM, Mark Andrews wrote:
> In message<4B719346.4020002 at arcelormittal.com>, Cedric Lejeune writes:
>    
>> In fact, our firewall was doing some kind of traffic shaping (thanks
>> Robert ;): if the number of requests of any type goes above a define
>> number, then block further requests.
>>      
> Care to share, with the list, the vendor and model numbers so that
> others will be aware of what to look out for if they have or intend
> purchasing the firewall.
>    

I'd bet that any make/model of firewall can be configured to block or 
hinder the very services they are intended to protect.

-- 
Dave