Mike, when you are supporting thousands of domains on your nameservers it
takes way more than a few seconds to reload.
Best Regards,
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Frazer" <mikef@invertedmind.com>
To: "Alex Brecher" <alex@successfulhosting.com>
Cc: <discuss-list@opensrs.org>
Sent: Monday, January 21, 2002 4:08 AM
Subject: Re: BIND
> Restarting BIND *should* be almost instantaneous. Perhaps a few seconds
> or so, but that's not bad. It's got to load records into memory,
> otherwise a query would take 10x longer, if not worse. A few seconds is a
> very good tradeoff for improved performance and a *considerably* smaller
> system hit.
>
> To answer your question (sort of) I am totally unaware of a version of
> BIND that does what you are looking for. Save yourself some time,
> perhaps, and only restart when you add a new record? Does away with any
> unnecessary system load and a few precious seconds of NS downtime.
>
> Mike Frazer
>
>
>
> On Mon, 21 Jan 2002, Alex Brecher wrote:
>
> > Is there is a version of bind that can get data from a database WITHOUT
a
> > complete restart ? We're offering DNS services to our clients and we
restart
> > our nameservers once hourly.
> >
> > Best Regards,
> >
> > Alex Brecher
> >
> > Visit us at http://www.Successfulhosting.com
> > We'll make your web site a success!
> >
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> >
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> >
>
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