[Pdns-users] pdns-recursor peering

[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 seems

Well if you could do a parallel query to all siblings (similar to
squid), and after say 20-25ms of getting no replies you go direct,
chances are over time you could find that with the law of averages the
amount of time saved verse lost with this method more then adequately
makes up for any initial losses.

Not to mention when I do DNS traces with dig, won't always be a true
reflection I know, it's not uncommon to see times over 200ms as not all
gTLD servers are on anycast IP space, which is stupid but another
argument altogether.

> to be a moot point, you surely are not the only one with a load
> balancer setup with x amount of servers behind it, and the other open/free
> big DNS resolver implementations don't support 'peering' either.

Is there anything inherently bad about doing something similar to
squid's notion of siblings/parents in DNS?

It seems to work well as far as I've seen.

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