[Pdns-dev] passing original QTYPE to the backend

[Zane Thomas]

Benjamin,

By the way, I don't use the PDNS cache because I sometimes need to
vary the response based on the requestor's ip address. Instead I
handle all caching in the backend.

Zane

On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 1:31 PM, Veniamin (Benjamin) Beskrovny
<beskrovny at gmail.com> wrote:
> THanks a lot for the tip.
>
> BR
>
> On 2/3/13, Zane Thomas <zane.thomas at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Benjamin,
>>
>> DNSPacket * which is passed in to the lookup method can be used to
>> determine what the original query type was. I very much needed to use
>> the packet pointer in order to select which records of a set which, in
>> the database my backend interfaces too, are as a set non-rfc
>> compliant. My approach was to look a  the packet query type and return
>> to pdns only those records it needs to answer the query.
>>
>> Zane
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Feb 2, 2013 at 10:17 PM, Ask Bjørn Hansen <ask at develooper.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Feb 2, 2013, at 10:08 PM, Peter van Dijk <peter.van.dijk at netherlabs.nl>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> However, no backend should *need* the exact qtype. Why do you think you
>>>> need it?
>>>
>>> For my application[1] it's (relatively) expensive to figure out the answer
>>> and the answers can't be cached in the server, so figuring it out for any
>>> possible record type is just wasteful.
>>>
>>>
>>> Ask
>>>
>>> [1] I made it in Go instead of as a pipe backend when I was upgrading the
>>> system last fall: https://github.com/abh/geodns
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