On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 10:06 PM, Alan McKinnon <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, 19 May 2012 07:45:56 +0530 > Nilesh Govindrajan <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Which is the best caching dns server? I'm presently using >> pdns-recursor, which is quite good, but doesn't have option to set >> minimum ttl (doesn't make sense, but some sites like twitter have >> ridiculously low ttl of 30s). Also, it isn't able to save cached >> entries to file so that it can be restored on next boot. Any option? > > You can use almost any cache you want... > > ... except bind > > We use unbound. Does the job, does it well, developer very responsive. > > But do not fiddle with TTLs, that breaks stuff in spectacular ways. > Essentially, with the TTL the auth server is saying "We guarantee that > you can treat this RR as valid for X amount of time and suffer no ill > effects if you do" > > What you want to do is break that agreement, which is really not s good > idea. > >> >> I am keeping my box 24x7 on because it serves as dns on my small home >> wifi, not acceptable to me, because network is almost off at night >> (only phone) and I have my router as secondary dns. > > Just use Google's caches or OpenDNS. They do the job so much better > than you ever could. Why reinvent the wheel? > >
Slow connection. See my previous reply to the list. I'm using pdnsd, which can persist records and has every damn feature I wanted. -- Nilesh Govindarajan http://nileshgr.com
