Help!!! BIND Performance Question

[David R. Conrad]

Hi,

BIND version 9 uses red-black trees due to the requirement of ordering in
DNSSEC and they do have an impact on performance.  We're working on fixing
this in subsequent releases.

BIND version 8 does not use red-black trees.

Rgds,
-drc

kclaw01 at my-deja.com wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I am new to BIND Server.
> 
> Someone told me that the BIND server is using red-
> black tree (balanced b-tree) to store domain
> data. Therefore, it spend a lot of time to insert
> record if the security extension is enabled (i.e.
> all the doamin data is encrypted) .
> 
> Does anybody know whether the BIND server is
> using red-black tree to store domain data and the
> performance problem is true or not.
> 
> Thanks,
> Raymond
> 
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