How many zones running BIND ??

[Nate Campi]

On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 03:05:44PM -0800, Nate Campi wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 05:53:13PM -0500, Kevin Darcy wrote:
> > 
> > Nate Campi wrote:
> > 
> > > On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 07:31:01PM +0100, Johnny Damtoft wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Well, im running a set of servers with 6500 zones, and its going great :o)
> > >
> > > How long does it take your nameserver to start?
> > >
> > > I often wonder why BIND 9 doesn't allow a compiled binary db to be
> > > loaded from disk, instead of being compiled and loaded (only) into
> > > memory at each startup. Seems like a rewrite would be the time to get
> > > this right.
> > 
> > I doubt that this "feature" would be worth the effort. Frozen config files in
> > sendmail sucked.
> 
> Maybe I'm not clear on this. It's like your db's for fast alias lookups
> with sendmail. That does not suck, that is a great feature.

Of course it's not for the same reason, the alias db is for the fast
lookup, but in BIND's case it would aid at startup. I'm sure you knew
what I meant.
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