On Thu, 28 Jul 2011, Ask Bjørn Hansen wrote: > > On Jul 28, 2011, at 11:28, Charlie Brady wrote: > > >>> I use dnscache on my home network and would like to know why anybody > >>> decide to move from dnscache. > >> > >> Performance, > > > > Could you supply some details, please? > > Off the top of my head the two things I'd run into are the outstanding > requests limit Chris mentioned and how it wants to resolve all the NS > records into A records before continuing the chain (or do I remember > that wrong?)
You don't remember wrong - if there is missing required glue in referrals, dnscache persues an endless search for the missing glue, rather than resolving using the name servers it has already located: http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.network.djbdns/12132 > Also the occasional (though rare) incompatibility when someone has some > extraordinary odd or broken DNS data or servers is annoying. "It's > their fault!" doesn't really get your time debugging it back. This is the same issue, is it not?
