On 10/31/06, bert hubert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 02:09:52PM -0800, Augie Schwer wrote: > When PowerDNS receives a malformed qdomain (google%com) it drops the > query and the client eventually times out; BIND it seems will either > give a NXDOMAIN or root referrals; wouldn't it be better if PowerDNS > did something similar from a clients perspective? In the past this has lead to "hammering", with clients repeating broken queries the moment the servfail comes in. Silence appears to be the best way to react to broken queries. Garbage in, garbage out etc. It may not be the optimal user experience, but amortaged it is, as the nameserver is far quicker to respond to bonafide queries when not being flooded by broken clients.
That sounds like good reasoning to me; thanks for the explanation. -- Augie Schwer - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://schwer.us Key fingerprint = 9815 AE19 AFD1 1FE7 5DEE 2AC3 CB99 2784 27B0 C072 _______________________________________________ Pdns-users mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.powerdns.com/mailman/listinfo/pdns-users
