[evla-sw-discuss] Deranged name lookups

[Bryan Butler]

maybe it's rich doing something?

not me - i'm in orlando at a meeting...

	-bryan


On 5/24/06 16:10, James Robnett wrote:
> 
>    We're seeing about 11,000 DNS lookups per hour coming from one
> of Qwests name servers for evla-mib address/host pairs.    Since
> these are on a private network the best guess is somebody is looking
> at the data from home and converting hostnames to IP's (the inverse
> won't work since 10.x.y.z doesn't map to the NRAO from the outside
> worlds view).
> 
>    Any idea why somebody (probably in Albuquerque) needs to
> do addr/host pair matching ?
> 
>    If I had to guess I'd say somebody in Albuquerque has some big
> chunk of EVLA archive on a laptop and are trying to do hostname
> to ip conversion.
> 
>    We really need to either get comfortable working with IP addresses
> or load the IP addr/hostname pairs into software.   Handling 10's of
> thousands of DNS lookups/hour * more antennas * more employees
> isn't going to scale real well .... well it would I guess but it just
> seems like a waste.
> 
> James
> ps:  If nothing else it's forcing our logs to rotate by size several
> times a day.
> 
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