[21841] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: NSI policy on lame delagations
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Vixie)
Sun Nov 22 01:49:22 1998
To: nanog@merit.edu
From: Paul Vixie <paul@vix.com>
Date: 21 Nov 1998 07:01:47 -0800
In-Reply-To: mleber@he.net's message of 21 Nov 1998 05:40:14 -0800
> Remember these aren't nameservers that serve 5 domains, figure tens of
> thousands. Perhaps I am not being clear. Reloads, even a HUP, cause
> named, even the new version, to pause for a while before being able to
> serve requests again.
That will change in 8.1.2++, btw. "ndc" will use a socket, not signals.
> All the relevant nameservers for the domains would
> have to be reloaded 300 times a day in this case. It isn't good if named
> stops responding that often because it slows access to the web sites
> domains by inserting a dropped DNS query timeout every time the reloading
> server is queried (50% or 33% depending on 2 or 3 nameservers. If the
> reload takes 30 seconds then reloading 300 times == each nameserver is
> down for 150 minutes a day. Not good.
Not bad, either. This is why we have slave servers.
> Or do you suggest delaying client domain name registrations 24 hours?
I always put a zone up on the master before I send in the registration.
If the slaves take a day or so to catch up I can live with that.
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Paul Vixie <paul@vix.com>
