Re: Two new DNS virtual packages (authoritative-name-server & recursive-name-server)
On Tue, 22 Oct 2013, Russ Allbery wrote:
> > I would suggest: caching-name-server
>
> That's basically what a recursive-name-server is. I don't think the
> application should care whether it caches locally or not; that's up to the
> local administrator.
Almost every recursive resolver does caching, to the point that anything
that needs a remote caching namerserver can expect it to just exist.
Usually, the worst you can expect is two levels: local-system -> crap SOHO
device DNS proxy -> DNS recursive server with caching.
When something actually bothers to specify that it wants a caching
name-server, it means a close-by (latency-wise) caching name-server, or an
exclusive caching nameserver.
Heck, mail clusters often need an hierarchy of a local high-performance
caching resolver per node AND a cluster-wide pair of full-blown
high-performance caching recursive resolvers and private authoritative
resolvers (for the RBL feeds).
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