[Pdns-users] Possible bug in powerdns logging

[bert hubert]

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On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 04:05:13PM -0500, Michael Reynolds wrote:
> In a matter of 1 second, nearly 4000 entries were logged to syslog.
> 
> Jan 11 15:03:49 core pdns[29740]: Query: 'select 
> content,ttl,prio,type,domain_id,name from records where type='SOA' and 
> name='delinked.us''
> Jan 11 15:03:49 core pdns[29740]: Query: 'select 
> content,ttl,prio,type,domain_id,name from records where type='SOA' and 
> name='lewp.net''
> Jan 11 15:03:49 core pdns[29740]: Query: 'select 
> content,ttl,prio,type,domain_id,name from records where type='SOA' and 
> name='annihilated.us''
> Jan 11 15:03:49 core pdns[29740]: Query: 'select 
> content,ttl,prio,type,domain_id,name from records where type='SOA' and 
> name='the-sh0rt-b.us''
> Jan 11 15:03:49 core pdns[29740]: Query: 'select 
> content,ttl,prio,type,domain_id,name from records where type='SOA' and 
> name='oper.tk''
> 
> The above 5 lines (they're five if you unwrap them) are repeaating 
> thousands upon thousands of times.  Woke up this morning to find my 
> syslog file at about 3 gigs in size.  I have loglevel=0, I've disabled 
> verbose logging, and log-dns-details=0.  This seems to be something new, 
> as it has never happened to my servers before.  Is this a bug?  If not, 
> how do I prevent it from running 4000 queries per second?  If more 
> information is needed, please don't hesitate to ask.  I've not installed 
> any new software on the system, nor made changes to the system itself in 
> the last month.  I'm running FreeBSD 4.9-STABLE.
> 
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