From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Jan 13 7:49:56 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5498137B401 for ; Mon, 13 Jan 2003 07:49:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from bastet.rfc822.net (bastet.rfc822.net [64.81.113.233]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF99643F5B for ; Mon, 13 Jan 2003 07:49:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from pde@bastet.rfc822.net) Received: by bastet.rfc822.net (Postfix, from userid 1001) id ECE149F035; Mon, 13 Jan 2003 09:50:11 -0600 (CST) Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2003 09:50:11 -0600 From: Pete Ehlke To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Need advice on PHP and MySQL books Message-ID: <20030113155011.GA2719@rfc822.net> References: <20030110234309.R12065@2-234-22-23.pyvrag.nggov.pbz> <3E1FF12B.5390D978@mindspring.com> <20030111144619.X22424@2-234-22-23.pyvrag.nggov.pbz> <3E21FD22.38CD81BB@mindspring.com> <20030113141542.GC2260@rfc822.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 03:51:43PM +0100, Brad Knowles wrote: > At 8:15 AM -0600 2003/01/13, Pete Ehlke wrote: > > > Does anyone know the story about NSD? I've looked at it several times, > > run it and played with it locally quite a bit, and found it extremely > > interesting. But I've had a third-hand report that RIPE folks have said > > (third hand, but this is the direct quote I got...) "the damn thing just > > didn't work". Haven't been able to get more than that. > > I've benchmarked it, and it is *damn* bloody fast (see > ). > Agreed. It simply blew me away when I tried it out here at home. It was doing utterly unheard of numbers on old, low-end PC hardware. For those who might want to play with it, /usr/ports/net/nsd > However, the way it works is to pre-calculate every possible > query for the zone in question, and then to pre-generate every > possible answer (coalescing as many questions and answers together as > it can), and then to index all the answers from all the questions. > They throw out all the "normal" authoritative name server tasks that > would normally be done that are not strictly required for the kind of > operations you would expect to see at a root name server. > Right. IIRC (and I may not; the coffee hasn't really kicked in yet...) djb tried the same thing in early versions of his authoritative server, and gave up on the idea. > But for much larger zones (like .nl, and especially the signed > "test" version at .nl.nl), you just can't feed it enough memory. Or > so I have been told, and by people at least one step closer to that > process. Ah, right, that makes sense. -P. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message