[Pdns-users] hints-file format

[Peter Fern]

Hehe, alright then - just idle thoughts, I'll do some benchmarking and 
stress-testing and decide whether to stick with djb for the recursors, 
thanks for your help.

Pete

bert hubert wrote:

>On Sun, Nov 20, 2005 at 02:31:27AM +1100, Peter Fern wrote:
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>>How difficult would it be to support a scheme similar to the djbdns 
>>'root/servers/' list of NS to query on a per tld basis, for example we 
>>currently use:
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>Not something we are planning to add, I'm afraid, there is not a lot of
>demand for this feature, and a lot of public demand for other things.
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>>querying the backend directly - they should really only do recursion, 
>>and running the full pdns just to do this really seems like overkill - 
>>especially since this increases hits to the backend for non-existant 
>>domains.
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>It is still free though :-)
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>>I would think this moderately trivial to implement using something like 
>>a 'forward-file' in the format of:
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>>.ispname                  xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
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>No, it is not easy, it requires 'immortal' records that have a special flag
>to make sure they aren't overwritten by public answers. The records must
>also not time out etc.
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>Sorry!
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