In article <mailman.82.1529939079.803.bind-us...@lists.isc.org>, Paul Kosinski <b...@iment.com> wrote:
> How does *not* responding to a UDP query take longer for the *server* > than responding to UDP a query? Both responding and (deliberately) not > responding require identifying the query, but not responding bypasses > the time the server would need to construct the response, plus time > spent in the network stack. (I'm assuming we don't care about client > side "expense".) If there's no response, the client retries several times. It will try all the servers that the zone is delegated to, so you'll put more load on multiple servers. NXDOMAIN responses are cached, it's one hit and then nothing for a while. -- Barry Margolin Arlington, MA _______________________________________________ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from this list bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users
