BIND 9.3.1 Cache Server Optimization

[mayer]

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> Hi,
> 
> I'm setting up a DNS cache server which will serve all our
> customers.=20
> 
> The server is built with BIND9.3.1 on Solaris. Searching archivement
> of this list, I disbale IPv6 in source code compilation and start
> named with -n option; with BIND configuration, cleaning-interval is
> set to 0.
> 
> To monitor the performance & successful rate of this server, a program
> 'dig' two domain names ( www.nba.com, www.the-sun.com )20 time per 5
> minutes. It is found that the successful rate of the new cache server
> is much lower than some other Cache servers. In past 48 hours,  the
> new cache server failed to answer 5.93% resolution requests of
> www.nba.com, while the figure of some other cache server is only
> 1.46%.
> 
> Would anybody do some recommendation to improve the successful rate?
> 
Nothing. Those DNS records have extremely low TTL's so it constantly has
to go back to the authorative server to requery it for its A records.

Danny
> Each word will be highly appreciated.
> 
> Joe
> 
>