Re: difference in dnscache installs

[email protected] (Paul Jarc)
Newsgroups gmane.network.djbdns
Organization What did you have in mind? A short, blunt, human pyramid?
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richard lucassen <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 04:24:20 +1030
> Daryl Tester <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Didn't you say these two caches were busy?  There's a fixed upper
>> limit on the number of outstanding queries (200?), and dnscache drops
>> the oldest query if that limit is reached.
>
> This sounds very logical. But OTOH DJB would have build this in as a
> variable, wouldn't he?

It's MAXUDP, a macro defined in dnscache.c.  It's not designed to be
configurable, because raising it significantly above 200 would cause
strange problems on some platforms.  It might work for yours, though.
It depends on how many file descriptors your system's select() or
poll() function can handle.


paul
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