[ILUG] Webalizer, Ubuntu and DSL

[Robert Sweetnam]

Nick Murtagh wrote:
> Robert Sweetnam wrote:
>   
>> I just moved a web server over to Ubuntu 6.06LTS and installed webalizer.
>> Whenever I run webalizer after about 5 seconds or so the router drops
>> its DSL connection.
>>     
>
> Hmm, could Eircom be dropping the connection on purpose because
> webalizer makes lots of DNS requests and looks like a spam bot or some
> other malware? Try installing a caching nameserver and see if that
> helps.
>   
Thanks for the reply. That was my thought too but it only appears to be 
since I changed the host for some reason. I already have a caching name 
server in place.

I tried reducing the number of DNS children that webalizer uses to 2 but 
alas the same happened again.

Cheers
Robert