DDNS Throttle updates

Kevin Darcy kcd at chrysler.com
Fri Apr 25 22:57:19 UTC 2008


Peter Kringle wrote:
> We have a zone with over 100,000 RR's in it.  The problem is, from time to time, this zone requires full rebuilding which 
> is done via DDNS updates.  And if our scripts which do the DDNS updates start pushing the updates in at full throttle, it 
> will cause the servers to slow down to a crawl. 
> I am trying to find a way to help mitigate this potential impact on our servers using some method with in BIND.  Maybe either 
> by limiting, or in some way tweaking the server to handle the higher load.
>   
DDNS wasn't really built for this.

Why don't you have your scripts write out a good, old-fashioned zone 
file when a rebuild is necessary?

                                                                         
      - Kevin



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