Using an Oracle database within BIND 9.0.0.

[Don Robertson]

My company, Mind Share Systems, has a product called Scalable DNS (SDNS)
that has been created especially for this purpose. It uses Oracle and can
handle up to a million domains. It also has an administrative front end
designed for web hosting companies. It currently is supporting machines with
over 100,000 domains.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: network_noadle [mailto:william.noad at ntli.net]
> Sent: Friday, November 17, 2000 7:50 AM
> To: comp-protocols-dns-bind at moderators.isc.org
> Subject: Using an Oracle database within BIND 9.0.0.
> 
> 
> 
> Greetings,
> 
> My employers are about to launch a set of major web/mail hosting
> services. The problem we have is scaling. We have been told 
> that BIND 8
> doesn't scale well past 6000 zones, and our sales predictions are for
> 10000 new zones per month.
> 
> What we would like to do is create a database (using MySQL or Oracle)
> that contains all the information for the zones we are creating (every
> new customer gets a domain name). The problem we have is 
> this: how do we
> modify BIND to access an external database of information, instead of
> initialising from several thousand flat text files and searching an
> internal RB tree?
> 
> Our current plan is to modify BIND such that the initialisation
> procedure skips the reading of the zone files and opens a 
> connection to
> the external database. The internal RB tree is never 
> populated. Instead
> of searching the RB tree for information we fire an appropriate search
> query to the database.
> 
> Does anyone have any suggestions or better ideas for this?
> 
> Regards
> 	William Noad
> 	NTL
> 
>