On Mon, Feb 13, 2023, at 05:38, Aditya Sharma wrote: > Hi All, > > We needed help in understanding how systemd-resolved service can be extended > to cache DNS responses to protect against DNS server failures. > We were planning to maintain a cache so that we can override negative > responses from the DNS server and replace it with our cached last known good > record.
This sounds very dangerous. A 'negative' response from an authoritative DNS server (NXDOMAIN, for example) is authoritative and should not be overridden. If what you mean is that you want to serve 'stale' records from a cache when their TTLs have expired and the authoritative servers which provided them are not reachable, that's something that a number of existing recursive resolvers are able to do and it could be logical for systemd-resolved to offer it too.
