Re: Use UDP for (small) incremental zone transfers?

2023-01-12 Thread Greg Choules via bind-users
Sending from the correct email alias! Hi again. How many is "many"? A busy server will be handling many 1000s of queries per second. A few (tiny) zone transfers per minute will be background noise compared to that and the extra overhead of TCP will be negligible in comparison. IMHO it's not worth

Re: Use UDP for (small) incremental zone transfers?

2023-01-12 Thread Jesus Cea
On 13/1/23 7:12, Greg Choules via bind-users wrote: Hi Jesus. No. Zone Transfer always uses TCP. Is it really that much of an overhead for you? Not now, but it could be in the future, with many secondaries and many (tiny) updates per minute. Per your answer, I understand that zone

Re: Use UDP for (small) incremental zone transfers?

2023-01-12 Thread Greg Choules via bind-users
Hi Jesus. No. Zone Transfer always uses TCP. Is it really that much of an overhead for you? Cheers, Greg On Fri, 13 Jan 2023 at 05:56, Jesus Cea wrote: > I have a dns zone with many dns updates per minute. The updates are > tiny, like 2-3 records, <500 bytes in total. > > Currently my

Use UDP for (small) incremental zone transfers?

2023-01-12 Thread Jesus Cea
I have a dns zone with many dns updates per minute. The updates are tiny, like 2-3 records, <500 bytes in total. Currently my secondaries receive a NOTIFY and they do a TCP connection to request a incremental zone transfer. We know that TCP is "heavy" and the data I need to transfer is tiny