[Dnsmasq-discuss] FW: Cachesize

[Nathan Downes]

Hi Petr,

I guess that is totally possible, I had just used it for a few other projects so figured if it works why not use it :) The only things I use are setting minimum cache ttl to 30 mins and max cache size to 10k.  There is only about 1000 endpoints of various types, from residential to business. 

It only came about because I noticed the quantity of traffic to other resolvers was a lot more than I expected and I guessed caching would improve the experience for the end users.

It functions well at this level as far as I can see, always sub ms responses and almost no load on server. It is just a small VM with Dnsmasq, SMTP relay and STUN server.

I will check out other options then if I am pushing the limits of capability

-----Original Message-----
From: Petr Mensik [mailto:pemensik at redhat.com] 
Sent: Monday, 10 April 2017 8:51 PM
To: Nathan Downes <nathandownes at hotmail.com>
Cc: dnsmasq-discuss at lists.thekelleys.org.uk
Subject: Re: [Dnsmasq-discuss] FW: Cachesize

Hi Nathan.

If you hit a cache limit of 10000 quite often, are you sure dnsmasq is still the best choice for that server? I think dnsmasq focuses on small home routers and end networks. Have you considered other caching resolver, unbound for example? I think if this limit is not enough, maybe your network is not small enough. There is limit for some reason. I hope full cache does not mean recursion will stop working, but I did not validate that assumption.

I think main DNS resolvers of ISP network should use something more heavy than dnsmasq.
How many end hosts are using that server?
Do you require dnsmasq specific features?

Cheers,
Petr

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Nathan Downes" <nathandownes at hotmail.com>
To: dnsmasq-discuss at lists.thekelleys.org.uk
Sent: Monday, April 10, 2017 10:41:24 AM
Subject: [Dnsmasq-discuss] FW: Cachesize



Hi, 



I understand this is hardcoded to a limit of 10000 but we use it for a small ISP network and quite often reach this, is it possible to make it 25000 in next release? Everyone has the choice at loading what to set it to, so I can’t see how this would cause issues. I would prefer to just use available packages than have to compile my own to adjust this and always have to remember the modification. 



Thanks, 



Nathan 

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