Connection Count -

Reindl Harald h.reindl at thelounge.net
Sat Aug 18 21:34:13 UTC 2012



Am 18.08.2012 23:19, schrieb Heinz Diehl:
> On 18.08.2012, Reindl Harald wrote: 
> 
>> this sounds more like enable DNS-resolution which may be
>> dangerous to self-dos if i understand it right
> 
> There's a max. limit of connections (4096; in my case it's 1024),
> which is far too low to harm, so there's no danger here. 
> The main purpose is to track the QoS functionality, but one 
> can use it as a quick overview over what happens on the router,
> which were my thoughts in this case..

if it is DNS-rverse-lookup 4096 is a LARGE count

try netstat without and with reverse-lookups
there are very few cases where it doe snot hurt

and NO dns-reverse-lookups does not help to
get a "overview over what happens"

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