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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
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