Minimal responses and speeding up queries

Matus UHLAR - fantomas uhlar at fantomas.sk
Thu Sep 22 15:07:53 UTC 2016


On 22.09.16 16:41, Job wrote:
>in Bind 9.10 we tried minimal-responses = yes to limit "additional queries" when resolving.
>
>I notice that resolution is faster.
>Actually, dig @host some_url still shows an additional query, maybe not needed for a caching-only resolver:
>
>; (1 server found)
>;; global options: +cmd
>;; Got answer:
>;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 54581
>;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1
>
>Is there a way to improve limiting of "additional queries" after minimal-responses = yes?

using minimal responses often results into additional queries needed, by
definition.  If you want to avoid additional queries, turn minimal_responses
off.

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