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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>In Server Management -> Network Services -> DNS -> Advanced<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>With Rate Limit enabled, set the Responses Per Second to 1024 (as indicated by maximum range). Save.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Restarting named from SSH now fails and viewing /var/log/messages contains:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Jan 20 06:48:32 localhost named[28568]: /etc/named.conf:19: responses-per-second 1024 > 1000<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Jan 20 06:48:32 localhost named[28568]: loading configuration: out of range<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Jan 20 06:48:32 localhost named[28568]: exiting (due to fatal error)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I found this playing around on my test server but wanted to report it. It’s probably not a real-world scenario, maybe worth a low priority fix.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>HTH, Richard<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>