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I might also add that MHSC was using PostgreSQL for a while, until we started doing some performance/capacity testing. We are looking at Oracle now. The performance might be there, but the documentation as to how to tune-in that performance, isn't. Generally, most networking RDBMS's have trouble performing at the levels required by BIND. At 10:38 PM 11/22/98 -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". 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 :-). > >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. >-- >Paul Vixie <[email protected]> > ___________________________________________________ Roeland M.J. Meyer, ISOC (InterNIC RM993) e-mail: <mailto:[email protected]>[email protected] Internet phone: hawk.mhsc.com Personal web pages: <http://www.mhsc.com/~rmeyer>www.mhsc.com/~rmeyer Company web-site: <http://www.mhsc.com/>www.mhsc.com/ ___________________________________________ Who is John Galt? "Atlas Shrugged" - Ayn Rand
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