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Date:      Thu, 29 Dec 2011 15:58:42 +0700
From:      Victor Sudakov <vas@mpeks.tomsk.su>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: mutual forwarders in ISC BIND
Message-ID:  <20111229085842.GA45978@admin.sibptus.tomsk.ru>
In-Reply-To: <CAE_wXn3_2a7=gc%2Bj1coQ0pTbYvAKwZ4QLNgmTFbBpDSxCYZYEg@mail.gmail.com>
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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.

Sure, after query log analysis.

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

Unbound cannot do that, can it?

I am surprised. After all, squid siblings are quite common.


-- 
Victor Sudakov,  VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN
sip:sudakov@sibptus.tomsk.ru



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