Re: Delegation questions

2016-08-12 Thread Chris Buxton
Forwarding is more similar to how some other systems work. But it's not how DNS naturally works. I think the biggest source of "forwarding = natural" is perhaps from admins coming from other parts of IT, rather than any regional difference. But I could be wrong. From a technical perspective, in

RE: Delegation questions

2016-08-12 Thread Darcy Kevin (FCA)
True, strictly from a per-hop latency standpoint, there shouldn't be much difference between forwarding a packet or forwarding a DNS query. Having said that -- and I'm sure the BIND developers could elaborate further on this -- I know that there's big difference between processing *packets*, fro

Re: Delegation questions

2016-08-12 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 12.08.2016 um 11:07 schrieb Willmann, Robert: Hi Harald, Do you see other downsides to forwarding? you get the lowest TTL in the whole chain and god beware none of the multi-hop forwarders have a cache hit so it makes it to the last in chain doing then recursion - it's a simple "worst

Re: Delegation questions

2016-08-12 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 12.08.2016 um 07:32 schrieb Willmann, Robert: Kevin Darcy wrote: In any case, multi-hop forwarding is always the least-preferred option. I wonder for which reason do you think this. Of course, any forwarding adds a additional hop and therefore additional delay and an additional possib

RE: Delegation questions

2016-08-12 Thread Willmann, Robert
Hi Harald, > > Do you see other downsides to forwarding? > > you get the lowest TTL in the whole chain and god beware none of the > multi-hop forwarders have a cache hit so it makes it to the last in chain > doing then recursion - it's a simple "worst case math" Do you ever have seen a signifi