[21944] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: NSI policy on lame delagations
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay R. Ashworth)
Thu Nov 26 00:19:26 1998
Date: Wed, 25 Nov 1998 23:34:34 -0500
From: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <g3u2zqkj5v.fsf@bb.rc.vix.com>; from Paul Vixie <paul@vix.com> on Sun, Nov 22, 1998 at 10:38:52PM -0800
On Sun, Nov 22, 1998 at 10:38:52PM -0800, 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".
Ok; I'm there... but it seems to me that disk caching, possibly
application tuned, and 3/4 of a shitload of ram should solve that
problem. If you really need to serve that much DNS, you can _afford_ a
4GB Ram Alphaserver, no?
> 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 :-).
Ah, got it.
> in 8.1.2++, though, the goal is to be able to check and/or reload a zone
> without having to stat() all the others. for someone with 50K zones on
> board, this should be a huge speedup.
Quite so.
Cheers,
-- jra
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