Bind V9 and hosting lots of Domains

[Barry Margolin]

In article <38BEDB5F.A59A9455 at daimlerchrysler.com>,
Kevin Darcy  <kcd at daimlerchrysler.com> wrote:
>Mike Dimmick wrote:
>> but surely it's less often that an admin will look
>> directly at the stored zone file?  A direct binary dump of the database
>> would seem more logical to me, with an additional tool to convert to
>> text format if a human does need to read the info, or to export to a
>> different name server package.
>
>BIND 9, a total rewrite of BIND, currently in early beta, promises a
>variety of backend datastores. Check out
>http://www.isc.org/products/BIND/bind9.html

Cisco's Network Registrar (the product they acquired when they bought
American Internet) is based on database technology as well, so it
supposedly starts up instantly.

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