Benjamin, By the way, I don't use the PDNS cache because I sometimes need to vary the response based on the requestor's ip address. Instead I handle all caching in the backend.
Zane On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 1:31 PM, Veniamin (Benjamin) Beskrovny <beskro...@gmail.com> wrote: > THanks a lot for the tip. > > BR > > On 2/3/13, Zane Thomas <zane.tho...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Benjamin, >> >> DNSPacket * which is passed in to the lookup method can be used to >> determine what the original query type was. I very much needed to use >> the packet pointer in order to select which records of a set which, in >> the database my backend interfaces too, are as a set non-rfc >> compliant. My approach was to look a the packet query type and return >> to pdns only those records it needs to answer the query. >> >> Zane >> >> >> >> On Sat, Feb 2, 2013 at 10:17 PM, Ask Bjørn Hansen <a...@develooper.com> >> wrote: >>> >>> On Feb 2, 2013, at 10:08 PM, Peter van Dijk <peter.van.d...@netherlabs.nl> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> However, no backend should *need* the exact qtype. Why do you think you >>>> need it? >>> >>> For my application[1] it's (relatively) expensive to figure out the answer >>> and the answers can't be cached in the server, so figuring it out for any >>> possible record type is just wasteful. >>> >>> >>> Ask >>> >>> [1] I made it in Go instead of as a pipe backend when I was upgrading the >>> system last fall: https://github.com/abh/geodns >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Pdns-dev mailing list >>> Pdns-dev@mailman.powerdns.com >>> http://mailman.powerdns.com/mailman/listinfo/pdns-dev >> >> >> >> -- >> Nullius addictus jurare in verba magistri. >> _______________________________________________ >> Pdns-dev mailing list >> Pdns-dev@mailman.powerdns.com >> http://mailman.powerdns.com/mailman/listinfo/pdns-dev >> -- Nullius addictus jurare in verba magistri. _______________________________________________ Pdns-dev mailing list Pdns-dev@mailman.powerdns.com http://mailman.powerdns.com/mailman/listinfo/pdns-dev
