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[DjiXas]

Since yesterday named started to use more cpu than usual. Techs "refuse" to work with that issue and saying that its's normal. Though all the time had no problems, haven't added hundreds of domains yesterday and there were no changes from my end.

There was one change from techs side however.

"the MX record for the domain was going to localhost, rather than the domain name. I have changed the MX record to domain..."

Anything I should check? Logs doesn't provide anything valuable, just notices.

[vegweb1]

How much more?

[DjiXas]

I am not even sure. Never noticed it. Mysql was always in top by usage with 4% (top command). Now it says 7% for named.

[Fizzadar]

Have you tried restarting it? (I know, silly question, just wondering).

[DjiXas]

Yes, still same + no suspicious lines in logs during restart.

[mwaseem]

Turn off recursion. Add following statements under options{} section...

interface-interval 0;
cleaning-interval 0;
recursion no;

Please update us if there is any difference, which should be

[DjiXas]

mwaseem,

Just fixed this issue. Load is now 0.3 (from 4.2).

mail dns entry had a name - hostname, so I changed it to c name - domain name.

That's it. Techs were keep telling me that load should be 4.2, guess what, they're wrong. Thanks for your help.

[vip2]

Do you mind sharing exactly what you done?

Like what files edited and such please?

[DjiXas]

WHM > Edit DNS Zone, pick any domain name and you'll see all those entries.