RoadRunner going to hell

[dattaway at attaway.net]

On Thu, 20 Jun 2002, Marvin GodfatherofSoul Bellamy wrote:

> My connection has been getting progressively slower over the past few 
> weeks.  A while back, I counted something like 1300+ packets in one 
> minute.  From my understanding, it has to do with CodeRed and subnet 
> broadcasts which generate DNS queries.  Well, what *seemed* to work was 
> relying on the backup DNS servers, since the primary was generating so 
> much traffic.  Now, even this isn't working.  I contacted RR last night, 
> the support guy was nice enough but basically told me there was nothing 
> they planned on doing about it.  I even offered to track down the 
> infected machines on my own dime.  No takers.  Normal web browsing is 
> okay, but it's when I play CounterStrike that I notice.

Since we run linux, we can easily set up our own caching nameserver.  It
will look up directly from the root hosts and is incredibly fast.  Here's 
a mini howto to set things up:

http://r703a.chem.nthu.edu.tw/~ks/linux/howto/mini/Caching-named

It doesn't get any faster than that...