[ratelimits] can't trigger rate-limit

[Vernon Schryver]

> From: Irwin Tillman <irwin at princeton.edu>

> I'm unable to get the rate-limit to trigger.
> I figure I'm missing something simple.
>
> Platform: BIND 9.9.2-P1 with the rate limit patch on Solaris 10 SPARC.
> It's an authoritative only server.
> ...

I don't see the problem.  Perhaps it would help evolve a small
configuration that works toward your actual configuration.  
>From the hints about your configuration, I wrote this /tmp/named.conf:

options {
   directory        "/tmp";
   pid-file  	    "pid";
   session-keyfile  "session.key";
   listen-on        port 8053 { 127.0.0.1; };
   rate-limit {
       responses-per-second 5;
   };
};
logging {
    channel rl {
        severity info;
        print-category yes; print-time yes; print-severity yes; file "rl-log";
    };
    category rate-limit { rl; };
};


I tested BIND 9.9.2-P1 with the rrl patch on FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE
running as
% ./named -f -c /tmp/named.conf

with

% repeat 10 dig @127.0.0.1 +short +tries=1 +time=3 -p 8053 rhyolite.com
192.188.61.3
192.188.61.3
192.188.61.3
192.188.61.3
192.188.61.3
;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached
192.188.61.3
192.188.61.3
192.188.61.3
192.188.61.3

and got that timeout for the dropped response and the following in
/tmp/rl-log:

01-Jan-2013 07:17:25.924 rate-limit: info: limit responses to 127.0.0.0/24 for rhyolite.com IN A  (38cbb7f2)


Vernon Schryver    vjs at rhyolite.com