Performance Issues - PTR Records
Jay Ashworth
jra at baylink.com
Sat Nov 5 02:57:33 UTC 2011
----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jimmy Hess" <mysidia at gmail.com>
> There is no need for me to physically create 64k*4bil*4bil on a disk or memory area
> somewhere. I can make a plugin for my DNS server to hand you the generic result
> when you ask my DNS server what something reverses to...
>
> That is, I can serve you an ephemeral record without requiring an
> extra byte of storage beyond the life of your query :)
This is precisely the approach taken by the DNS server package written by
the tech folks at the late, lamented MindSpring -- the name of which eludes
me for the moment.
Cheers,
-- jra
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Jay R. Ashworth Baylink jra at baylink.com
Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100
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