On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 5:20 AM, Stan Hoeppner <s...@hardwarefreak.com> wrote: > You simply need a caching resolver on an MX/outbound, not a zone server. > A zone server is useless in this case.
Yep - I know that now. :) > I use PowerDNS Recursor on my MX/outbound and never had a problem. > Under Debian it's a 3 minute install+configuration time, assuming you > read the docs beforehand. Simply, effective, low resource consumption. > Oh, and free. I installed both pdns-recursor and unbound (running without any zone data) on a test box and got very similar performance results from both. We happened to go with unbound, but based on your recommendation, maybe I'll give pdns-recursor another look (it's still running on our test box). SteveJ