DNS requests and Bandwidth

Wed May 11 16:38:47 UTC 2005

From: aljuhani
> 
>  
> One way was to block requests from that DNS IP but that was not
> practicle as many users on that DNS won't be able to communicate
> with our server.
>  
> so What is the best way to prevent DNS queries consuming bandwidth.

Run an authoritative-only DNS server that won't respond
to queries for domains it doesn't handle.  tinydns from
http://cr.yp.to/djbdns.html would be an example.

David