[Pdns-users] pdns-recursor peering

[Alex Kiernan]

On 15/10/2007, Darren Gamble <darren.gamble at sjrb.ca> 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 examined.
>
> The issue is, quite simply, that doing this has higher resourcing
> requirements and higher latency than simply having "plain" caches behind
> the load balancer.  I believe Bert would echo this as well.
>

Its the view we took a few years back - this paper (at least I think
it was this one - I've not re-read it carefully, just flipped through
the links we have) helped to direct our decision making:

http://nms.lcs.mit.edu/papers/dns-ton2002.pdf

-- 
Alex Kiernan