[bind10-dev] Thinking aloud: Receptionist

[Michal 'vorner' Vaner]

Hello

On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 09:30:08AM -0800, Jerry Scharf wrote:
> A receptionist has a functional advantage that is allows the auth (or 
> recursive) code to be upgraded without a server reboot. The new auth 
> code version instances are started and go through their initialization, 
> then the receptionist starts feeding the queries to the new instances 
> and then the old instances are killed.
> 
> I do not know how important this feature is, just observing that it can 
> be had with the receptionist.

Just for completeness, the one with socket creator and boss starting multiple of
them can do it as well. You just exchange them one by one (start new one, give
it the same socket, stop old one, start another new one, stop another old one,
etc).

Have a nice day

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   -- Havlik Denis

Michal 'vorner' Vaner
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