Why Nostr? What is Njump?
2023-06-07 15:21:26
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Robert McKay [ARCHIVE] on Nostr: πŸ“… Original date posted:2014-05-19 πŸ“ Original message:On Mon, 19 May 2014 ...

πŸ“… Original date posted:2014-05-19
πŸ“ Original message:On Mon, 19 May 2014 19:49:52 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 4:36 PM, Robert McKay <robert at mckay.com>
> wrote:
>> It should be possible to configure bind as a DNS forwarder.. this
>> can
>> be done in a zone context.. then you can forward the different zones
>> to
>> different dnsseed daemons running on different non-public IPs or two
>> different ports on the same IP (or on one single non-public IP since
>> there's really no reason to expose the dnsseed directly daemon at
>> all).
>
> Quite the opposite. dnsseed data rotates through a lot of addresses
> if available. Using the bind/zone-xfer system would result in fewer
> total addresses going through to the clients, thanks to the addition
> of caching levels that the bind/zone-xfer system brings.
>
> That said, if the choice is between no-service and bind, bind it is
> ;p

Setting it up as a zone forwarder causes each request to go through to
the dnsseed backend for each request.

Rob
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