Problems with named default configuration in 6-STABLE

[David Malone]

On Tue, Jul 17, 2007 at 07:30:28PM +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote:
> Note that it's not just a single AXFR - you need to update your local
> slave copy whenever the master copy changes.  I'm not sure how often
> this is but the current SOA has a 1-day timeout and appears to be about
> 24 hours old.  I suspect the total data transferred via AXFRs will be
> significantly higher than just caching lookup results.

I measured the traffic levels a while back:

	http://www.imconf.net/imc-2004/papers/p15-malone.pdf

It's actually pretty close for a moderately busy recursive resolver,
and if you allow IXFR (which, I belive, the root servers in question
do) then the saving should be bigger.

	David.