Re: NSI policy on lame delagations

["Roeland M.J. Meyer" <rmeyer () mhsc com>]

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 <paul () vix com>

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