Re: [dns-wg] Elimination of 2nd level ccTLD domain names

[Yiorgos Adamopoulos <]

Jay Daley wrote:
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> - You then have to manage another system on each nameserver, and that 
> brings with it a new set of dependencies and vulnerabilities, that you 
> could just as easily do without.  Out view has always been to minimise the 
> number of unnecessary processes on any production nameserver.
>
> Some of this is, of course, supposition so I would be interested to know 
> if anyone else thinks using database in this way is simple.
Well for the moment we are using a flat-file "database" that is going to be 
moved to Oracle in the next 4 months (as part of many other things 
integrated to it).  Actually you do not have to run a database instance on 
every node where you want to run a DNS server.  Why not have the Database 
system produce the zone files for the nameserver of your taste (be it NSD, 
tinydns, BIND, etc) and then rsync to the actual servers?
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