automatic reverse and forwarding zones

Matus UHLAR - fantomas uhlar at fantomas.sk
Mon Nov 7 16:08:52 UTC 2022


>> On 7. 11. 2022, at 16:19, Matus UHLAR - fantomas <uhlar at fantomas.sk> wrote:
>> while it's doable, and with using BIND plugin at generating server it 
>> won't need much of memory, any server that will be repeatedly asked to 
>> resolve IPs from that range will fill its cache with generated records.

On 07.11.22 16:28, Ondřej Surý wrote:
>That's not any different than wildcard record in a forward zone.  The 
> resolvers already have to deal with garbage in the cache and cache 
> eviction algorithms.

I'm afraid that this problem can become really huge when someone creates 
huge amount of generated records, e.g.  using proposed module.

>The DNS server doesn't live among rainbows and unicorns, so we prepare for 
> the worst to come from network, not the best.

Let's hope such problem won't appear. 

I was only curious if it may happen, if there's need to consider it.

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