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-rw-r--r--src/forward.c7
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/src/forward.c b/src/forward.c
index e8249a6..f90be2f 100644
--- a/src/forward.c
+++ b/src/forward.c
@@ -1144,6 +1144,13 @@ void reply_query(int fd, time_t now)
}
forward->sentto = server;
+
+ /* We have a good answer, and will now validate it or return it.
+ It may be some time before this the validation completes, but we don't need
+ any more answers, so close the socket(s) on which we were expecting
+ answers, to conserve file descriptors, and to save work reading and
+ discarding answers for other upstreams. */
+ free_rfds(&forward->rfds);
#ifdef HAVE_DNSSEC
if ((forward->sentto->flags & SERV_DO_DNSSEC) &&