From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Oct 2 3:13:37 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1FC3A37B401 for ; Wed, 2 Oct 2002 03:13:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dm.transactionware.com (dm.transactionware.com [203.14.245.8]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8212B43E42 for ; Wed, 2 Oct 2002 03:13:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from janm@transactionware.com) Received: (qmail 67980 invoked from network); 1 Oct 2002 10:39:36 -0000 Received: from new.transactionware.com (192.168.1.55) by dm.transactionware.com with SMTP; 1 Oct 2002 10:39:36 -0000 Received: (qmail 71285 invoked by uid 1006); 1 Oct 2002 10:41:04 -0000 Received: from janm@transactionware.com by new.transactionware.com by uid 1003 with qmail-scanner-1.10 (uvscan: v4.1.40/v4215. . Clear:0. Processed in 0.280576 secs); 01 Oct 2002 10:41:04 -0000 Received: from mosm1.transactionware.com (HELO mosm1) (192.168.1.130) by new.transactionware.com with SMTP; 1 Oct 2002 10:41:03 -0000 From: "Jan Mikkelsen" To: "'Leigh V'" , "'Dave [Hawk-Systems]'" , "'Jan Knepper'" , "'FreeBSD ISP'" Subject: RE: DNS (bind or djbdns or ???) Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 20:37:08 +1000 Organization: Transactionware Message-ID: <001301c26936$7e7ae950$8201a8c0@mosm1> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.2627 Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 In-Reply-To: <006801c268f4$ec722e10$2d01a8c0@michael> Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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