Re: DNS caches that support partitioning ?

2012-08-18 Thread Raymond Dijkxhoorn
Hi! The cache needs to be big enough that it has a thrashy bit that is getting changed all the time. Those are the records that go into the cache and then die without being queried again. If the problem is that there's some other record in there that might be queried again, but that doesn't

Re: DNS caches that support partitioning ?

2012-08-18 Thread Jimmy Hess
On 8/17/12, Michael Thomas m...@mtcc.com wrote: If the dnsbl queries are not likely to be used again, why don't they set their ttl way down? Because the DNSBLs don't tune the TTLs for individual responses; they likely still benefit from extended caching, high TTLs for responses makes sense for

Re: DNS caches that support partitioning ?

2012-08-18 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Aug 18, 2012, at 5:35, Raymond Dijkxhoorn raym...@prolocation.net wrote: Reverse DNS isnt the only issue here. There are many sites that give each user a subdomain. And if i look at my top talkers on some busy resolvers i do see that thats doing about 25-30% of the lookups currently.