[21917] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: NSI policy on lame delagations
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (jmalcolm@uraeus.com)
Mon Nov 23 23:24:37 1998
From: jmalcolm@uraeus.com
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1998 23:02:52 -0500 (EST)
To: Paul A Vixie <paul@vix.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199811230753.XAA18715@bb.rc.vix.com>
Paul A Vixie writes:
>If your DNS is not part of an infrastructure data management system, then
>that is a true statement. However, many larger sites integrate their DNS
>with their existing database systems so that there can be a single source
>of authentic data for the Entreprise. At this moment, they have to do this
>by exporting their zones into text files that BIND can read. Suboptimal.
Yet having the advantage that when your SQL- or other-based database
fails, your nameservers don't.