are you using an upstream parent?
you mean like a forwarder?
yeah
if so you can use forward first the nfail
err then direct
        forward-first: yes
how can I test prefetch performance?
you can't
dns performance is pretty difficult to test.
bsaically if you go to google and get ttl of 60 msec
then you retrieve it again in 55 seconds
it will go and refresh the answer for you
to live another 60 seconds.
but it means if you do any kind of benchmarking it's hard to test
you can look at your mean service time
or median
and see if that improves
baut that can be complicated by lots of other factors too
do you know how to hide AUTHORITY SECTION:
in dig responses
you can type unbound-control stats_noreset
and it'll show you how many queries were prefetched
i enable minimal responses :/
but no
i use host normally
you can find out the ttl from host using -v
then that shows authority section too
here is an odd dig response, duplicate AUTHORITY records with different TTLs:
http://pastebin.com/ptdx65ij
ADDITIONAL rather
the ttl is different because that's the ttl of the a records on nameservers rather than the nameserver records.
i dunno why it's doubling up though
I Googled'd my ARP VPS' hostname and found mentions of it as an NTP server :D
Sorry to say, only mentions of zeit or irclogger and pool.ntp.org listings
(and the ARP kb article)
Can my mikrotik router somehow provide netflow statistics?
yes
it can
Mikrotik RouterBOARD RB2011UiAS-2HnD-IN 
That's the model
Do I need to provide some kind of collector?
Can cacti integrate with the flow data?
Looks like it http://forums.cacti.net/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=50994
(for loose meanings of "integrate")
mnathani: yes you need some kind of collector, something like ntop
er not ntop
yep ntop, nfsen, prtg etc.
The default is to store all NetFlow data (perform no addregation).
in the web interface, I found a typo
s/addregation/aggregation
<mnathani> The default is to store all NetFlow data (perform no aggregation).
can aggregation be done after the flow data is recorded?
thanks staticsafe, I managed to get ntop working with netflow data from my Mikrotik Router
useful?
over time I think it will be
splits up bandwidth usage into destination addresses / AS as well as which host on my local net used the bandwidth
so I should be able to determine what % of traffic is netflix, facebook, youtube etc
ahh ok
yeah i think it'd be less useful for me