Does named use multithreading?

[David R. Conrad]

Hi,

At 10:20 AM 11/17/2000 +0100, Peter Eisenhauer wrote:
>Except at the beginning of the reload. Reloading bind9 with a large number of
>zones (e.g. 200000) results in a period of about 30 seconds where no queries
>are answered, even if running with multiple threads.

Right. This is when BINDv9 is reparsing the configuration file (a result of 
the need to be backwards compatible with BINDv8) -- if you have a big 
configuration file, reparsing takes a while.  We're working on a fix for 
this (albeit a non-backwards compatible one).

Rgds,
-drc