Long Startup times and Directory Structure

[Kevin Darcy]

Karl Pielorz wrote:

> Hi,
>
> We're running Bind 8.2.2-P5 under FreeBSD. We have a moderately large number
> of domains (few thousand) that this server provides data for...
>
> At the moment, all the zone files are in a single directory. FreeBSD doesn't
> seem to have a problem with this - and even cd'ing to that directory and using
> file name completion from the shell get's the right file, or list of files
> pretty instantly...
>
> The nameserver takes around a minute to startup - if I use a better directory
> structure (e.g. by filing 'mydomain.com' under 'm/y/d/mydomain.com' - Is this
> likely to cutdown the startup time? - Dramatically?
>
> We do have to reload the nameserver quite often as we make config changes etc.
> - so I was just wondering if making this change would be worth the effort
> (apart from keeping the number of files in a single directory down).

What kind of config changes are you making? Maybe "ndc reconfig" would be faster
than a reload...


- Kevin