Minimizing DNS-SD queries (was unescaped double quotes in TXT record)
Joseph Tam <[email protected]> Tue, 25 May 2010 03:00:25 -0700 (PDT)
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This is tangential, but hopefully not off-topic. If a network administrator decides not to support DNS-SD, what DNS records values can be set to minimize the number of DNS-SD queries? I've experimented with - no records: just return NXDOMAIN for all DNS-SD queries. - wildcard DNS-SD PTR records ^*._dns-sd._udp.your.domain:local ^*._dns-sd._udp.d.c.b.a.in-addr.arpa:local (tried "local","localhost","localdomain"). Experimenting with the above hasn't seem to make much of a difference. The reason I looked into this was that I was getting an inordinate amount of DNS-SD queries. Our parent domain DNS administrator reported during a random sampling period that these queries were taking up to 20% of their total load. I've also made a dummy bonjour subdomain/server, but that seems to increase the DNS-SD queries. I later found out that the bulk of these DNS-SD queries were as a result of MacOSX client misconfigurations, and fixing them seems to quell some of the query storms. Minimizing DNS-SD queries still seem a worthwhile goal though. Any ideas? Joseph Tam <[email protected]>