NSI policy on lame delagations

Mon Nov 23 07:20:04 UTC 1998

Paul Vixie wrote:
> 
> > Given (for example) PostGreSQL, is there any reason why someone hasn't
> > ported the algorithms of BIND on top of something like it?  It seems to
> > me that it ought to be possible to keep a nameserver running whilst one
> > is doing maintenance on it...
> 
> the line of people who have asked for this would stretch out the door and
> into the street.  bind runs from memory rather than from disk, because it
> has to be able to answer at wire speed for large values of "wire".  we're
> working on a hierarchical storage system, basically a memory cache with
> LRU, backed by a database.  we're also working on a way to load from sql
> databases into memory rather than always having to load from disk.  it's
> likely that the second of those two projects will be complete a year or
> so before the first :-).

How about simply using libdb.a from SleepyCat Software?  It does all
cacheing and can be used with threads.  And it also makes dynamic
updates
a breeze.

SQL (or any other kind of relational database for that matter) is
clearly
an overkill.

--vadim