[dns-operations] PowerDns Recursive Daemon

Roy Arends roy at dnss.ec
Fri Sep 1 13:36:14 UTC 2006


On Sep 1, 2006, at 12:42 AM, bert hubert wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 03:24:27PM -0700, Doug Barton wrote:
>
>> Does it use EDNS for queries?
>
> No - the probing required to see of the remote grasps EDNS0 is  
> rather a big
> slowdown, whereas there are very limited opportunities to benefit  
> from the
> larger packet size EDNS0 allows.

This is not a future proof middlebox. I recommend against using it,  
since it stalls innovation and deployment of applications using DNS.

http://dnss.ec/blog/?p=9

Regards,

Roy



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