RE: rndc addzone/delzone in 9.7.2rc1 (was: rndc reconfig delays)

2010-08-28 Thread Timothe Litt
ailto:r...@loonybin.net] Sent: Friday, August 27, 2010 18:46 To: Evan Hunt Cc: bind-users@lists.isc.org Subject: Re: rndc addzone/delzone in 9.7.2rc1 (was: rndc reconfig delays) On Fri, 27 Aug 2010, Evan Hunt wrote: > "Non-obvious" isn't the point. We thought of having the file

Re: rndc addzone/delzone in 9.7.2rc1 (was: rndc reconfig delays)

2010-08-27 Thread Rob Foehl
On Fri, 27 Aug 2010, Evan Hunt wrote: "Non-obvious" isn't the point. We thought of having the file be named directly after the view, but view names are allowed to include characters that are forbidden in file names. Before opening the file we'd have to check the name's legality, ensure it does

Re: rndc addzone/delzone in 9.7.2rc1 (was: rndc reconfig delays)

2010-08-27 Thread Evan Hunt
> I'm having a hard time following the motivation behind these changes. Why > is the filename non-configurable and non-obvious? "Non-configurable" may change. "Non-obvious" isn't the point. We thought of having the file be named directly after the view, but view names are allowed to include ch

rndc addzone/delzone in 9.7.2rc1 (was: rndc reconfig delays)

2010-08-27 Thread Rob Foehl
On Thu, 26 Aug 2010, Rob Foehl wrote: My next step is going to be to experiment with the rndc addzone/delzone feature in the 9.7.2 betas, which hopefully should avoid any need to attempt a reconfig during normal use. That aside, is there anything else I could be doing to speed things up? I

Re: rndc reconfig delays

2010-08-27 Thread Larissa Shapiro
Probably. I'd like to get Michael's feedback... I have not heard of this from anyone else have either of you? On Aug 26, 2010, at 3:22 PM, Rob Foehl wrote: I've been experimenting with loading a large number of master zones (on the order of 250,000) in a single BIND instance, and have

rndc reconfig delays

2010-08-26 Thread Rob Foehl
I've been experimenting with loading a large number of master zones (on the order of 250,000) in a single BIND instance, and have noticed that 'rndc reconfig' with this many zones loaded can take a very long time to determine that it has little or nothing to do. Worse, the server stops answeri