startup/load time for bind too long

phn at icke-reklam.ipsec.nu phn at icke-reklam.ipsec.nu
Wed Nov 20 20:29:18 UTC 2002


Nate Campi <nate at campin.net> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 06:54:06PM +0000, phn at icke-reklam.ipsec.nu wrote:
>> Gary <gary at cryotechnica.com> wrote:
>> 
>> > We have a nameserver with a hundred thousand domains and the load time
>> > with bind on startup is about 15minutes.. this is very long.
>> 
>> > Is it possible to reduce the load time with bind?
>> 
>> > All our domains point to the one zonefile as they all go back to our
>> > main site... so I'm suprised there is still such a long delay loading.
>> 
>> > Any help would be extremely appreciated
>> 
>> Several thing might be done :
>> 
>> 1/ make your master "hidden" and convert your current master a slave
>> of that hidden master. 

> When you start the "new" slave it'll take just as long as it loads all
> the zones. How will this help? 

After the initial loading, the slave will only be affected 
"by zone" changes.  There is also a possibility to do IXFR 


> All this allows is more frequent restarts of the real master. Keep it as
> it is and use '[r]ndc reload $zone' to reload only zones you change.

> Some people in your position use non-BIND servers that startup
> immediately even with millions of records to load. That's all I'll say
> about that.

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> -- 
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