Ted Lemon <ted.le...@nominum.com> wrote:

> > There's an easy way which I think is a clear optimization:
>
> > When there is a cache miss, before recursing, search the cache for a
> > parent NXDOMAIN entry. If you find one, add an NXDOMAIN cache entry for
> > the QNAME, and return that, otherwise recurse as usual.
>
> I don't see a problem with this, but I also don't see any argument for
> making a normative requirement to implement it.  Do you?

It neatly avoids a lot of wasteful authoritative queries.

Tony.
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