[Pdns-users] How can I enforce additional TXT records in DNS response?

[Brian Candler]

On 15/01/2020 21:01, Matthias Kruzenski wrote:
> Since this involves millions of queries every day, overhead like SOA 
> queries are absolutely undesirable because if a SOA query has to be 
> answered first and then an ANY query, then 2 co-processes are 
> necessary in the case of the pipe backend. It could be done with only 
> one co-process if only the parsed NAPTR question would be passed to 
> the backend since only that was requested by the client. Most 
> important is the performance and number of questions answered. It does 
> not matter whether this answer is authoritative or not.

I think you are putting the cart before the horse here.

First define: how many queries do you need to do per day? (Or per hour 
in your peak hour, or whatever).

Then ask: can powerdns with pipe backend meet that requirement, using a 
level of hardware you can afford?

* If it can, all is good.

* If it cannot, then look at other solutions.  PowerDNS with a non-pipe 
backend would be one.  Of course there are many other software choices too.

Do remember that with PowerDNS you get a robust, battle-tested DNS 
server, used in extremely high load ISP environments.  If you are going 
to throw all that out in the name of performance, you should at least 
measure it.