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| Thus Reyk Floeter <reyk@openbsd.org> spake on Wed, 5 Sep 2007 12:45:48 +0200: > hi, > > this code adds support for dns relaying/loadbalancing and a general > udp interface for hoststated relay. > > there has been some discussion about dns loadbalancing on misc in the > past. i know that it is probably better to use normal caches, servers, > anycast and the dns "p2p" network, but i implemented dns support in > hoststated to start with udp. because of the stateless nature of udp, > it is not possible to write a generic udp handler, the daemon needs to > look for state information in the application layer protocol itself > which is very simple with dns. a fancy cookie is that it replaces the > dns request id with random values (like the scrub random-id). > > it is still some kind of experimental... please test! > > reyk Thanks a lot, Reyk! If time allows, I'll try to set it up here in our company network this week or next week. Kudos to Reyk -- he's doing a great job! Cheers, Timo (<- who runs enough DNS servers but is really fascinated by hoststated supporting load balancing for DNS |