Re: DoT forwarder: controlling timeout before fallback to recursion ?

Michael Richardson <[email protected]> Sun, 03 May 2026 13:37:32 -0400

Newsgroups	gmane.network.dns.bind.user
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pgnd <[email protected]> wrote:
    > but, when the VM is unreachable, Bind9's fallback to direct recursion
    > has a very noticeable delay. in-browser reponse goes from un-noticeable
    > to ~ 3 seconds.

I'm curious if it's the same if the VM is up, but unbound is not running, so
you'd get an instant port unreachable, rather than suffer through ARP/ND
failures for the host.

    > recommending upgrade to ?= v9.3.0, and using adaptive forwarder
    > selection.  but, iiuc, adaptive selection only helps when forwarders
    > respond slowly -- not when completely unreachable.

I don't know the answer here, but if this VM is critical path, maybe it
should be redundant/resilient?
Why do you want this cache in place?  Is it performance, anonynimity, ??

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