[21894] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: NSI policy on lame delagations
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Vadim Antonov)
Mon Nov 23 02:45:55 1998
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1998 23:20:04 -0800
From: Vadim Antonov <avg@alink.net>
To: Paul Vixie <paul@vix.com>
CC: nanog@merit.edu
Paul Vixie wrote:
>
> > Given (for example) PostGreSQL, is there any reason why someone hasn't
> > ported the algorithms of BIND on top of something like it? It seems to
> > me that it ought to be possible to keep a nameserver running whilst one
> > is doing maintenance on it...
>
> the line of people who have asked for this would stretch out the door and
> into the street. bind runs from memory rather than from disk, because it
> has to be able to answer at wire speed for large values of "wire". we're
> working on a hierarchical storage system, basically a memory cache with
> LRU, backed by a database. we're also working on a way to load from sql
> databases into memory rather than always having to load from disk. it's
> likely that the second of those two projects will be complete a year or
> so before the first :-).
How about simply using libdb.a from SleepyCat Software? It does all
cacheing and can be used with threads. And it also makes dynamic
updates
a breeze.
SQL (or any other kind of relational database for that matter) is
clearly
an overkill.
--vadim
