Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 20:37:08 +1000 From: "Jan Mikkelsen" <janm@transactionware.com> To: "'Leigh V'" <leighv@roq.com>, "'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: <001301c26936$7e7ae950$8201a8c0@mosm1> In-Reply-To: <006801c268f4$ec722e10$2d01a8c0@michael>
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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. > 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. [...] In my experience, rebuilding the data.cdb file is fast, and most importantly there is no outage at any point during the process. How long did it take? If it took more than a few seconds for 1000 domains, it is possible you had something like this in your data: @first.domain.com:1.2.3.4:mail.yourco.com @second.domain.com:1.2.3.4:mail.yourco.com @third.domain.com:1.2.3.4:mail.yourco.com ... @nth.domain.com:1.2.3.4:mail.yourco.com Instead of: @first.domain.com::mail.yourco.com @second.domain.com::mail.yourco.com @third.domain.com::mail.yourco.com ... @nth.domain.com::mail.yourco.com +mail.yourco.com:1.2.3.4 Just for the record: I switched from BIND to djbdns and never looked back (except in horror). Jan Mikkelsen To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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