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> You'd think that an unresponsive nameserver would be flagged dead, and such > information be cached. Does anyone know whether that's actually done in Bind > 8.3.4? Or perhaps not by default? This certainly does not happen when all authoritative nameservers are unresponsive. See http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0310/wessels.html, in particular pages 23 and 24 of the slides. In my simulations with 100% packet loss, DNS caches running BIND8, dnscache, W2000, and W2003 all amplified the user's query rates. Only BIND9 attenuated. The results do depend on the actual query rate, however. At a higher query rate, the other caches would/should attenuate as well (perhaps reaching their hard-coded rate limits), but I don't have the exact numbers. It would be interesting to repeat the simulation and take out, say, half of a set of authoritative nameservers during the middle of the test. Duane W.
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