mutual forwarders in ISC BIND

[Peter Andreev]

2011/12/29 Victor Sudakov <vas at mpeks.tomsk.su>:
> Peter Andreev wrote:
>> >>
>> >> > Victor, we researched this topic and learned that response time highly
>> >> > depends on distance between user and resolver, while cache influence
>> >> > on this value is lesser.
>> >> > So I advice you to keep all as is.
>> >>
>> >> Be it so. Thank you.
>> >
>> > And the reason for the whole thread. One of the customers told me that
>> > 8.8.8.8 is faster than our own DNS servers which are located on the
>> > same 100 MBit/s LAN with them. I was shocked but it seems true, at
>> > least for the answers which are not yet cached.
>>
>> I don't know what software google uses on its resolvers, but I suppose
>> something with shared or synchronizing cache. May be they also make
>> preventive lookups on popular domains to fill this cache. And the
>> reason why 8.8.8.8 seems faster - it answered from cache while your
>> resolver made full lookup chain.
>
> Duh! That is why I started thinking about some cache synchronizing
> technique for my resolvers.

Preventive lookups can be made via self-written scripts.

AFAIK there is no free open source implementations providing cache
synchronization between different resolvers.

>
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