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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: NSI policy on lame delagations
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 -- Jay R. Ashworth [email protected] Member of the Technical Staff Buy copies of The New Hackers Dictionary. The Suncoast Freenet Give them to all your friends. Tampa Bay, Florida http://www.ccil.org/jargon/ +1 813 790 7592
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