[Pdns-users] Remote Backend and Query / Packet Cache

[Aki Tuomi]

On Sun, Feb 01, 2015 at 02:41:07AM +0000, AJ McKee wrote:
> Being the weekend, I decided to write a HTTP backend for pdns as a fun
> thing to do.
> 
> One thing springs to mind however are the packet and query cache. In
> particular, how they cache.
> 
> Do they use the remote clients ip as part of the caching key, thus only
> serving from the cache if the client is repeatedly asking? AFAIK this is
> not the case.
> 
> 
> If I added simple bind style views to my backend, would this be pointless?
> 
> My thinking here, if a request came from netblock A and it was cached,
> followed by a request from netblock C, C would get the cached answer
> instead of querying the backend for its corrected view.
> 
> Is there a way that the remote backend can influence the cache in the
> response it sends back?
> 
> I am aware of all the other backend, this is just my fun-time thing to play
> with the new features.
> 
> Thanks in advance
> 
> -- 
> AJ McKee
> phone: +353 83 1130 545
> profile:  http://linkedin.com/in/ajmkee
> jid:       aj.mckee at druid-dns.com
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> twitter: @ajmckee

You can set scopeBits to size of netblock. Should do what you 
want. 

Aki