[35550] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Would anyone be interested (SQL/Bind)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roeland Meyer)
Tue Mar 13 05:04:31 2001
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From: Roeland Meyer <rmeyer@mhsc.com>
To: "'Steven J. Sobol'" <sjsobol@NorthShoreTechnologies.net>,
"David R. Conrad" <david.conrad@nominum.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 02:01:30 -0800
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> From: Steven J. Sobol [mailto:sjsobol@NorthShoreTechnologies.net]
> Sent: Monday, March 12, 2001 5:44 PM
> On Mon, 12 Mar 2001, David R. Conrad wrote:
>
> > I might point out that BIND version 9 comes with a
> Postgres/SQL sample
> > "simple database interface" driver that permits the storage
> of DNS zone
> > data in a Postgres/SQL database. Zone data is extracted
> from the database
> > per query (the data does not need to be extracted and BIND
> reloaded). If
> > the DNS load is too high to support SQL queries on a
> per-DNS query basis,
> > using a stealth primary would most likely work.
>
> I'll take a look at that. It might be a good idea to make it
> modular, if
> it isn't already modular[0], so that people could create
> "plugins" that
> work with other databases. Personally, I'm going to see how
> much work is
> involved in porting the code to MySQL, since I don't use Postgres.
If "other databases" include Oracle 8i, I might be interested. Might as well
put it on a production-ready DBMS.
