Re: [Pdns-users] pdns-recursor peering

2007-10-17 Thread Mick Pollard
On Mon, 15 Oct 2007 16:24:57 +0100 "Alex Kiernan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 15/10/2007, Darren Gamble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The issue is, quite simply, that doing this has higher resourcing > > requirements and higher latency than simply having "plain" caches behind > > the load bal

Re: [Pdns-users] pdns-recursor peering

2007-10-17 Thread Kelsey Cummings
On Fri, Oct 12, 2007 at 10:27:09AM -0400, Patrick Domack wrote: > I suppose if you didn't care about memory, you could push the incoming > replies each server receives to the other servers. Then you wouldn't > have to check each server or have a time issue. It seems that if you really cared ab

Re: [Pdns-users] pdns-recursor peering

2007-10-15 Thread Alex Kiernan
On 15/10/2007, Darren Gamble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Good day, > > > What I want to know is: Can I set my pdns-recursor servers to check > each > > others cache before asking the root zones ? > > Thanks to everyone else who's replied so far. > > This configuration is something that we've also

RE: [Pdns-users] pdns-recursor peering

2007-10-15 Thread Darren Gamble
Good day, > What I want to know is: Can I set my pdns-recursor servers to check each > others cache before asking the root zones ? Thanks to everyone else who's replied so far. This configuration is something that we've also examined. The issue is, quite simply, that doing this has higher resou

Re: [Pdns-users] pdns-recursor peering

2007-10-12 Thread Duane
Brendan Oakley wrote: > Hi Mick, > > Depending on the application and purpose for wanting a shared cache, I There is another option that might work here. You might be able to employee something like memcached for storing queries/answers, memcached can be setup to share memory between different se

Re: [Pdns-users] pdns-recursor peering

2007-10-12 Thread Brendan Oakley
Hi Mick, Depending on the application and purpose for wanting a shared cache, I might try forwarding all queries to a single "master" recursor which only serves the "front-end" servers, performing all root server queries. It would only receive the queries that the front-end servers cannot answer f

Re: [Pdns-users] pdns-recursor peering

2007-10-12 Thread Patrick Domack
I suppose if you didn't care about memory, you could push the incoming replies each server receives to the other servers. Then you wouldn't have to check each server or have a time issue. Quoting Jan Gyselinck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Fri, Oct 12, 2007 at 12:30:11PM +1000, Mick Pollard wrote

Re: [Pdns-users] pdns-recursor peering

2007-10-11 Thread Duane
Jan Gyselinck wrote: > No you can't. I know Bert was toying around with a couple of ideas > in that direction, the main problem is the fact that checking locally > (before fetching it from the right location) costs time and thus > increases the query-response latency. In practice the problem see

Re: [Pdns-users] pdns-recursor peering

2007-10-11 Thread Jan Gyselinck
On Fri, Oct 12, 2007 at 12:30:11PM +1000, Mick Pollard wrote: > Hi all, > > I have been asked to put together a suggestion for a new caching-dns setup > for our company. > I have had a look at the recursor.conf options and can't find anything to > help. > We will have a hardware load balancer wi

[Pdns-users] pdns-recursor peering

2007-10-11 Thread Mick Pollard
Hi all, I have been asked to put together a suggestion for a new caching-dns setup for our company. I have had a look at the recursor.conf options and can't find anything to help. We will have a hardware load balancer with x amount of servers running pdns-recursor behind it.. What I want to know