modifying bind

[Kevin Darcy]

Frankly, I don't really understand what you are trying to accomplish. 
$GENERATE and the other zonefile directives only apply to *master* 
servers. Master servers don't store their data in "cache", _per_se_, 
they store them in authoritative data. So, what is the purpose in 
synthesizing these records on the fly? To reduce the memory footprint of 
the authoritative data? I suppose that might be a laudable goal, but 
understand that there is more processing involved with synthesizing 
these records, so you're basically just trading off memory versus CPU. 
Maybe you could implement some sort of LRU (least-recently used) 
algorithm so that the "popular" records are kept in memory and only the 
"unpopular" ones are synthesized on-the-fly. That might work, but it 
sounds like it would require a non-trivial amount of coding to implement.

Also, consider what happens when a slave replicates the zone via AXFR. 
You have to synthesize *all* of those records anyway. And you have to 
repeat that for every AXFR. Of course, it's possible to replicate zone 
data "out of band", but don't expect ISC to get terribly enthusiastic 
about a feature that only works efficiently when non-Internet-Standard 
methods are used for replication...

                                                                         
                                                            - Kevin

Mike A wrote:

>Hi,
>  i am currently trying to code an option like $GENERATE but instead of
>generating the records in advance, it would generate them on the fly and
>cache them. Currently i have code in place that generates a hostname from a
>requested IP address however i am not sure how to get bind to add it to the
>cache and return the generated hostname as a ptr record.
>
>The code to generate the hosts on the fly was inserted inside the else
>statement in lib/dns/rbt.c around line 1028. As far as i know, this
>populates the foundname with the generated hostname but doesn't do anything
>in regards to adding a record to the rb tree or getting bind to return this
>host.
>
>Can anyone tell me what is needed to make bind return the result generated
>in the foundname variable or give some hints to find out?
>
>If this is the wrong place to be asking, could someone suggest a better
>alternative?
>
>thanks in advance,
>Mike
>
>
>
>
>
>  
>