Need to restrict DNS requests to just 5 per second

[Josh Paetzel]

On Tuesday 26 December 2006 07:49, Len Conrad 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
>

Well, the issue as I see it is you can't restrict the number of 
queries per second from the clients without doing something on the 
client's end.  You can restrict how many of those queries reach the 
nameserver, or perhaps even how many of those queries the nameserver 
actually responds to, but the applications at the client end are just 
going to keep retrying til they get an answer, so I would think that 
restricting answers is just going to generate more traffic in the 
end.

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Thanks,

Josh Paetzel