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

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