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Re: DNS - connection limit (without any extra hardware)

  • From: Matt Ghali
  • Date: Mon Dec 11 19:23:07 2006 
On Mon, 11 Dec 2006, Simon Waters wrote:
Yes. Most of the root server traffic is answering queries with
"NXDOMAIN" for non-existant top level domains, if you slave root on your recursive servers, your recursive servers can answer those queries directly (from the 120KB root zone file), rather than relying on negative caching, and a round trip to the root servers, for every new non-existant domain.
That would require configuring my caching server with authoritative zones, and it seems prevailing wisdom (at least with BIND configurations?) is to keep the peanut butter seperate from the chocolate, no matter how great they taste together, to the best
of my knowledge.

matto

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