Background traffic (?)

I installed a new co-lo linux server just over three weeks ago, and it's basically been doing nothing since then - I've logged in a few times via webmin or ssh and tweaked the configuration of various things, but it's not acting as a live mail- or webserver for any domains, the only thing it's doing is running BIND9 and it's the nameserver for a test domain I registered. It's dual-homed in case that makes a difference.

Over the last two weeks my average bandwidth (metered by my ISP at 95%) is 22kbit/sec! When I do ifconfig I get

eth0:
RX bytes:969406234 (924.4 Mb) TX bytes:6415941 (6.1 Mb)

eth1:
RX bytes:966788989 (922.0 Mb) TX bytes:227934 (222.5 Kb)

What could be generating all this incoming traffic? Could it be to do with BIND?

Hope someone can help. If my average goes above 32kbit/s then I get charged extra by my ISP, which would be fine if it's useful traffic but this looks like it's not!

TIA for any help/suggestions.

dr.jay

 

 

 

 

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