Server mostly caching-only + acache

JINMEI Tatuya / 神明達哉 Jinmei_Tatuya at isc.org
Tue Dec 23 18:10:13 UTC 2008


At Tue, 23 Dec 2008 01:34:35 -0800 (PST),
yata at irc.pl wrote:

> > No, "acache" is specifically intended to be used for authoritative
> > servers.  It doesn't improve anything for a caching (only) server.
> Just to be sure.
> When my server start working and have clear memory and for example
> client need go to www.google.com. My server ask root servers. After
> follow the tree, server got answer and send this to the client. Can
> bind support internal short-cut (hash table) to speed up this request
> for another client who ask about www.google.com or I can only short
> response time when I am authoritative server and have a lot of domains
> using acache?

It's the latter (whether you "have a lot of domains" doesn't matter
wrt acache though).

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JINMEI, Tatuya
Internet Systems Consortium, Inc.



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