Re: [Resolverless-dns] Load-balancing concerns

[Dave Lawrence <[e-mail]>]

Justin Henck writes:
> How is a "resolverless" (unrequested resolution?) solution here any
> different from sharing a recursive, if we use ECS or if the primary
> service is widely deployed?

The landscape is complicated.  In many cases it will offer the same
results.  In some cases it will be demonstrably more bad.  In some
cases it might even be a bit better.    There are a lot of variables
to suss out here.

> E.g. it seems to me that there are three scenarios:
> 1) really large globally distributed services implementing will act like
> geographicaply distributed resolvers, which some of them also are

Right this one probably ends up looking largely like a regular
recursive resolver now, so is basically fine.

> 2) small single-datacenter services won't produce enough traffic to matter

I think maybe we shouldn't be cavalier with "to matter", because
it could very well matter quite a lot to the clients here.

> 3) large single-datacenter services might cause a problem

Yep.

> Are there other negative scenarios? I suppose 1 but not very well
> distributed?

Yep,