[146143] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Performance Issues - PTR Records
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Ashworth)
Fri Nov 4 22:58:42 2011
Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2011 22:57:33 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <CAAAwwbW7Hm5M4Y9AfmUgAz0oKEzaqxZRYJbzUbLhQCJxgwA7eg@mail.gmail.com>
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----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jimmy Hess" <mysidia@gmail.com>
> There is no need for me to physically create 64k*4bil*4bil on a disk or memory area
> somewhere. I can make a plugin for my DNS server to hand you the generic result
> when you ask my DNS server what something reverses to...
>
> That is, I can serve you an ephemeral record without requiring an
> extra byte of storage beyond the life of your query :)
This is precisely the approach taken by the DNS server package written by
the tech folks at the late, lamented MindSpring -- the name of which eludes
me for the moment.
Cheers,
-- jra
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