George Michaelson writes:
>
>If you are taking lots of bogus requests of the form other.domain.your.domain
>you will negative-cache the intermediate failures. this can mean 2-3x 
>overhead for each lookup you serve.

I realize that named can get very big, but even if this happens, then
the size would be reported by ps, yes?

Our named gets to about 12 megabytes, but swap usage goes upto about
40 megabytes or more.  That's the discrepancy I'm talking about.

Alec

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