Hi! Probably this isn't a right maillist to ask, but I think this will be interesting to people here. On one of my server I permanently have issue with dnscache, which looks like this: PID PPID TIME+ %CPU %MEM PR NI S VIRT SWAP RES UID COMMAND 3301 507 49:42.59 16.6 0.4 15 0 R 4148 2200 1948 1000 dnscache 11519 507 602:44.67 3.3 0.2 15 0 R 2860 2052 808 1001 svlogd 15610 26870 0:00.20 0.3 0.3 15 0 R 3588 1884 1704 0 top i.e. dnscache permanently use ~15% CPU (TIME+ column show less time for dnscache than for it svlogd just because I restarted dnscache some time ago). This server isn't very powerful (Celeron 2GHz, 512RAM), so this issue slowdown server significantly. Of course I can disable svlogd for dnscache (because writing huge amount of logd to disk also slowdown it), but I need logs to find out what's wrong. Restarting dnscache solve this issue for about a hour, and then it arise again (probably it initiated by some spammer who connect to my qmail from this IP, and tcpserver trying to resolve it). According to logs, dnscache again and again trying to resolve PTR 124.240.91.30, and every time got negative result (which it doesn't cache, AFAIK). I spend enough time trying to find out WHO is sending these PTR requests to dnscache (is anybody knows how to find out process which own UDP port? things like netstat can't answer to question "who is asking my DNS server")... dnscache run on 127.0.0.1 so it isn't remote attack. After all I got an Idea: maybe it's dnscache is the one who asking dnscache? :) I did strace, and, yes, it looks like dnscache send PTR requests to itself in endless loop. Look: http://powerman.name/tmp/dnscache_bug/log (1MB) http://powerman.name/tmp/dnscache_bug/strace (6.5MB) http://powerman.name/tmp/dnscache_bug/strace.filtered (2MB, only network I/O) About djbdns patches. I use Gentoo's net-dns/djbdns-1.05-r21 package. It apply several patches, but they all looks 100% harmless, and no one touch C code (except errno problem) - I'll attach them. -- WBR, Alex.