I agree with Alex...it seems like an obvious thing to have a version of bind
that every now and then queries for new records from a simplistic table and
loads only the structures into the hash table for the new domains.  Why does
that cause such an uproar? Sounds like progress to me...

-bryanw

-----Original Message-----
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Sent: Monday, January 21, 2002 9:05 AM
To: Mike Frazer
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: BIND


Mike, when you are supporting thousands of domains on your nameservers it
takes way more than a few seconds to reload.

Best Regards,

Alex Brecher

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Frazer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Alex Brecher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, January 21, 2002 4:08 AM
Subject: Re: BIND


> Restarting BIND *should* be almost instantaneous.  Perhaps a few seconds
> or so, but that's not bad.  It's got to load records into memory,
> otherwise a query would take 10x longer, if not worse.  A few seconds is a
> very good tradeoff for improved performance and a *considerably* smaller
> system hit.
>
> To answer your question (sort of) I am totally unaware of a version of
> BIND that does what you are looking for.  Save yourself some time,
> perhaps, and only restart when you add a new record?  Does away with any
> unnecessary system load and a few precious seconds of NS downtime.
>
> Mike Frazer
>
>
>
> On Mon, 21 Jan 2002, Alex Brecher wrote:
>
> > Is there is a version of bind that can get data from a database WITHOUT
a
> > complete restart ? We're offering DNS services to our clients and we
restart
> > our nameservers once hourly.
> >
> > Best Regards,
> >
> > Alex Brecher
> >
> > Visit us at http://www.Successfulhosting.com
> > We'll make your web site a success!
> >
> > Get your own domain name for only $14.99
> > http://www.DiscountDomainRegistry.com
> >
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> >
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