Re: thoughts about a new module called check_spammer_connect

On Thu, 28 Jul 2011, Ask Bjørn Hansen wrote:

> 
> On Jul 28, 2011, at 11:28, Charlie Brady wrote:
> 
> >>> I use dnscache on my home network and would like to know why anybody
> >>> decide to move from dnscache.
> >> 
> >> Performance, 
> > 
> > Could you supply some details, please?
> 
> Off the top of my head the two things I'd run into are the outstanding 
> requests limit Chris mentioned and how it wants to resolve all the NS 
> records into A records before continuing the chain (or do I remember 
> that wrong?)

You don't remember wrong - if there is missing required glue in referrals, 
dnscache persues an endless search for the missing glue, rather than 
resolving using the name servers it has already located:

http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.network.djbdns/12132

> Also the occasional (though rare) incompatibility when someone has some 
> extraordinary odd or broken DNS data or servers is annoying.  "It's 
> their fault!" doesn't really get your time debugging it back.

This is the same issue, is it not?