Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 19:18:08 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom Samplonius <tom@sdf.com> To: Leigh V <leighv@roq.com> Cc: "Dave [Hawk-Systems]" <dave@hawk-systems.com>, Jan Knepper <jan@digitaldaemon.com>, FreeBSD ISP <FreeBSD-ISP@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: DNS (bind or djbdns or ???) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10209301915280.26106-100000@misery.sdf.com> In-Reply-To: <006801c268f4$ec722e10$2d01a8c0@michael>
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On Tue, 1 Oct 2002, Leigh V wrote: > I tried DJBDNS, because I have 1000 domains to admin, and I wanted something > where I didn't want to have to restart the whole daemon for every change > like you do with BIND. Technically you only need to reload named, not restart it. "named reload" and "named restart" do very different things. "reload" checks for changes in config, while "restart" stops and starts the process. "reload" is much faster. > but I found that DJBDNS is far worse because you have to recompile the whole > database file everytime you change something and with 1000 domains each > having there own stack of records, restarting bind is much faster result. > I couldn't believe what a silly system DJBdns has for new records, I mean I > was drawn to it because of its claim that you don't need to restart it for > each change but recompiling a database with everything in it doesn't seem > like a better idea to me. Recompiling doesn't seem like a great idea, but it should be fast. > If someone could tell me otherwise I would like to hear it. > Aside from having to restart BIND every time which I fear could cause people > doing lookups for that brief time to get a dns lookup failure, I didn't at The solution here is to reload, not restart. > first like BIND's syntax that much and I still get caught all the time when > I am not paying attention but I still stick with it, its a bit like learning > how to ride a bike but every six months some one changes the peddles design > :). Tom To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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