Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 11:01:10 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org> To: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at> Cc: Peter Pentchev <roam@orbitel.bg>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DJBDNS vs. BIND Message-ID: <20010220110110.A18247@rapier.smartspace.co.za> In-Reply-To: <20010220064656.T2746@hand.dotat.at>; from dot@dotat.at on Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 06:46:56AM %2B0000 References: <20010218233916.J28286@lizzy.bugworks.com> <200102191012.DAA17412@usr05.primenet.com> <20010219123015.D2946@ringworld.oblivion.bg> <20010220064656.T2746@hand.dotat.at>
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On Tue 2001-02-20 (06:46), Tony Finch wrote: > Peter Pentchev <roam@orbitel.bg> wrote: > > > >tinydns never loads its datafile into memory, it mmap's it and does > >one-pass lookups on each and every query. > > That implies O(N) lookups for queries which is too insane even for > DJB. Surely it must be able to handle large zonefiles? It uses CDB. It needs just two disk accesses to return an entry stored therein (or just one, if the entry doesn't exist). Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner nbm@mithrandr.moria.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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