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On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 4:29 PM, Adam Carter <adamcarter3@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> Which is the best caching dns server? I'm presently using pdns-recursor, |
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>> which is quite good, but doesn't have option to set minimum ttl (doesn't |
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>> make sense, but some sites like twitter have ridiculously low ttl of 30s). |
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> The load balancing technology will be slow to respond if the TTLs are |
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> high, so given that responsive load balancing and timely fail over are |
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> good things, it does make sense. IIRC the F5 default is 20 seconds. Be |
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> careful if you are going to break DNS, there may be consequences |
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> you're not aware of. |
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I know that. Just experimenting things, because if I can cache it |
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locally, it would be quicker for me. |
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>> Also, it isn't able to save cached entries to file so that it can be |
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>> restored on next boot. Any option? |
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>> I am keeping my box 24x7 on because it serves as dns on my small home wifi, |
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>> not acceptable to me, because network is almost off at night (only phone) |
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>> and I have my router as secondary dns. |
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> Can you re-phrase that? - its hard to understand what the problem is. |
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Persistence across multiple boots/reboots. |
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I found pdnsd which can do that, trying that out now. |
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Nilesh Govindarajan |
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http://nileshgr.com |
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