Bind 9, Wildcard Records and Road Runner
phn at icke-reklam.ipsec.nu
phn at icke-reklam.ipsec.nu
Sat Nov 13 09:51:46 UTC 2004
Jonathan de Boyne Pollard <J.deBoynePollard at tesco.net> wrote:
> PV> ... the whole process takes less than one second, [...]
> PV> note that this is a BIND-specific solution, [...]
> AE> So even with a very large number of zones (hundreds of thousands,
> AE> if not millions) this process would still take less than a second?
> PV> regrettably, it will get slower as you get beyond 10000 to 20000
> PV> zones, and even getting that far will require segmentation of your
> PV> named.conf file into "include" files. you'd need DLZ, [...]
> ... or one of those non-BIND solutions that you studiously avoided
> mentioning, such as "djbdns", PowerDNS, MaraDNS, NSD, and so forth,
> which don't have the problems of having to parse tens of thousands of
> zone files. (Anthony might be interested to learn that not all TLDs use
> BIND, by the way. I know of one TLD that uses "djbdns", for example.)
> Don't believe the blurb on the DLZ website, by the way. It paints a
> grossly distorted picture in order to make itself look good. The
> non-BIND solutions are far from "basic", and support all of the resource
> records that BIND does. And as I mentioned, they are in wide use in
> equivalent situations. Always be suspicious of something or someone
> that chants the "BIND is the standard." mantra, as the DLZ blurb does.
> BIND, as the ISC's own web site clearly states, is a *reference
> implementation*. That's not the same as a standard.
Jonathan,
why don't you start marketing in your own forum, thus letting
us bind-conformant geeks rest in piece ??
I'm shure you will get less resistance somewhere else, i'm just
starting to find it tiresome hearing wou spreading FUD ( don't
take this personally, i fully respect your rights to have an
opinion, even an opinion that differs from mine. But in a forum
dedicated to item X i find it distrurbing to find advocates
that time after time advocates for item Y. If i respect Your rights
of a differing opinion, please respect my rights to "feel at home"
with my fellow "mates")
I hope we might meet over a beer sometime, that would be a better
environment to discuss our diverting opinions. I'll pay the bill!
--
Peter Håkanson
IPSec Sverige ( At Gothenburg Riverside )
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remove "icke-reklam" if you feel for mailing me. Thanx.
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