I had a network failure today, and in response one of my servers, running BIND, began logging all of its failed queries. Trouble is, it logged every single failure, with a retry rate of sometimes nearly 2,000 per second. By the time I realised what was going wrong and got the low-disk-space warning on /var, syslog had grown to 6GB for one day! Most of this resulted from NTP trying to sync.
2,000 retries per second is both impressive and wildly excessive, is there a config option I can use to dial this down to something more sane?
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