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Date:      Mon, 24 Jun 1996 11:02:03 +0900 (JST)
From:      Michael Hancock <michaelh@cet.co.jp>
To:        Mattias Pantzare <pantzer@ludd.luth.se>
Cc:        denis <denis@actcom.co.il>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Dynamically Allocatable Name Service (DANS)
Message-ID:  <Pine.SV4.3.93.960624104116.2140C-100000@parkplace.cet.co.jp>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.960623171212.7099A-100000@mother.ludd.luth.se>

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On Sun, 23 Jun 1996, Mattias Pantzare wrote:

> > I'd like to hear how he plans to handle servicing dynamic updates and name
> > requests with the performance required.  BIND once initialized operates
> > entirely in RAM and the service has high performance requirements that are
> > hard to meet even with a static database.
> 
> I think that you are missing the point. What he is doing is to store the 
> names that the nameserver provides to other servers in a database instead 
> of in a textfile. Not to do the name caching on disk. The whole binary 
> database can be cached in RAM. 

I understand what can be done.  Rocket and bike analogies just makes it
sound like name serving is a trivial exercise.  

mike hancock

--
Speaking for myself.





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