Mike, when you are supporting thousands of domains on your nameservers it takes way more than a few seconds to reload.
Best Regards, Alex Brecher Visit us at http://www.Successfulhosting.com We'll make your web site a success! Get your own domain name for only $14.99 http://www.DiscountDomainRegistry.com *****PLEASE DO NOT DELETE ANY PART OF THIS MESSAGE WHEN REPLYING***** ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Frazer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Alex Brecher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, January 21, 2002 4:08 AM Subject: Re: BIND > Restarting BIND *should* be almost instantaneous. Perhaps a few seconds > or so, but that's not bad. It's got to load records into memory, > otherwise a query would take 10x longer, if not worse. A few seconds is a > very good tradeoff for improved performance and a *considerably* smaller > system hit. > > To answer your question (sort of) I am totally unaware of a version of > BIND that does what you are looking for. Save yourself some time, > perhaps, and only restart when you add a new record? Does away with any > unnecessary system load and a few precious seconds of NS downtime. > > Mike Frazer > > > > On Mon, 21 Jan 2002, Alex Brecher wrote: > > > Is there is a version of bind that can get data from a database WITHOUT a > > complete restart ? We're offering DNS services to our clients and we restart > > our nameservers once hourly. > > > > Best Regards, > > > > Alex Brecher > > > > Visit us at http://www.Successfulhosting.com > > We'll make your web site a success! > > > > Get your own domain name for only $14.99 > > http://www.DiscountDomainRegistry.com > > > > *****PLEASE DO NOT DELETE ANY PART OF THIS MESSAGE WHEN REPLYING***** > > >
