[ratelimits] RRL patch is too talkative when dropping queries

Vernon Schryver vjs at rhyolite.com
Mon Jun 17 21:29:14 UTC 2013


> From: Bob Harold <rharolde at umich.edu>

> What would be missing then is the number of packets that were dropped or
> slipped, and the exact times of each packet, unless you are logging all
> queries and could correlate the logs.
> If the "stop limiting" message could include a count of dropped and slipped
> packets, that would be great.  Is that feasible?

That would cost a counter in every state blob,
which wouldn't matter on DNS servers with small state tables and generally
where keeping log files and counting lines there lines is feasible,
but might where on busy DNS servers.

Since there are overall RRL statistics, I propose not adding those counters
unless there is a hue and cry.


Vernon Schryver    vjs at rhyolite.com


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