Bind 9.3 in-memory cache
Kevin Darcy
kcd at daimlerchrysler.com
Tue Nov 29 21:34:14 UTC 2005
Loading gobs of potentially-stale RR data into memory at startup is
generally a pretty bad idea. I think it was there only for testing
purposes, not intended as a permanent "feature".
- Kevin
Martija, Ricardo wrote:
>I want to pre-load data into the in-memory cache from a file. The named
>man page indicates that there is a "-x" option that can be used to load
>data from a file into the cache of the default view. I started named
>using this option but the program just exited with the following
>message:
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>named: parsing options returned 120
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>I looked at the BIND 9.3.1 source code and discovered that support for
>the "-x" option is no longer there - a much older version of BIND 9
>(9.0.1) has it, though. Can anybody tell me why this feature was taken
>out? Are there any plans of putting back the feature in a future BIND
>release?
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>Thanks,
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>Rick
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