Using an Oracle database within BIND 9.0.0.
David R. Conrad
david.conrad at nominum.com
Mon Nov 20 17:34:28 UTC 2000
Peter,
At 09:46 AM 11/20/2000 +0100, Peter Eisenhauer wrote:
>DRC> No. The data in kept in the database and extracted on demand. We figure
>DRC> this will be helpful for folks who don't have a high query rate.
>
>Any chance to use this for a larger setup, e.g. 300000 and more zones,
>higher nameserver query rate?
If you have a high query rate, you'll want to keep the data in memory,
which means you'll take the performance hit on loading. If query rate
isn't very high, you can move the performance hit over to the query. We've
thought about putting a memory cache into the SQL database lookup code so
you'd only have to take the performance hit once, but don't have the
time/resources. We'll take advantage of the benefits of open source and
let someone else provide that code... (:-)).
However, if you really have that many zones you'd probably want to look at
some specialized software which BIND explicitly isn't -- BINDv9 was
specifically designed to implement pretty much everything the IETF
standardized as well as the popular warts of BINDv8.
Rgds,
-drc
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