Need to restrict DNS requests to just 5 per second

[Tek Bahadur Limbu]

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On Tue, 26 Dec 2006 07:49:09 -0600
Len Conrad <LConrad at Go2France.com> wrote:

> 
> >I need to restrict dns (udp) requests to not more than 3 requests per
> >second from each client's IP.
> 
> restricting DNS query rate, if you can find a way, will probably slow 
> your clients' operations very noticeably.
> 
> What problem are you trying to solve?
> 
> Len
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Dear All,

Thank you very much for your help and suggestions. Actually, the reason
why I want to implement this restriction is because some clients whose
Windows PCs are infected with viruses and malwares send up to 10-20
bogus DNS queries per second which causes the traffic utilization to go
almost 5 times high on the dns server.


This name server is not authoritative and allows recursion only
to my internal clients defined in my ACL.


Well I will definitely looked into 'recursive-clients' and
'tcp-clients' and also at PF to implement the restriction as suggested
by Matthew.

But since I am currently using IPFW and if I implement another PF
firewall, will it result in unexpected consequences.


Since I am very new to both FreeBSD and Bind, I think
I have got more help and information than I need from you guys.:)

Thanks alot once again.



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With best regards and good wishes,

Yours sincerely,

Tek Bahadur Limbu

(TAG/TDG Group)
Jwl Systems Department

Worldlink Communications Pvt. Ltd.

Jawalakhel, Nepal
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