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Re: DNS caches that support partitioning ?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrew Sullivan)
Fri Aug 17 15:33:13 2012

Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2012 15:32:11 -0400
From: Andrew Sullivan <asullivan@dyn.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <20120817161309.86830.qmail@joyce.lan>
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On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 04:13:09PM -0000, John Levine wrote:
> The application I have in mind is to see if it helps to keep DNSBL
> traffic, which caches poorly, from pushing other stuff out of the
> cache, but there are doubtless others.

If it's getting evicted from cache because other things are getting
used more often, why do you want to put your thumb on that scale?  The
other queries are presumably benefitting just as much from the caching.

Best,

A

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