Re: DDNS Throttle updates

7 msg	private address 192.168.x.x or 10.x.x.x on a pu...
4 msg	Distributed DNS Tools?
7 msg	query (cache) denied messages

DDNS Throttle updates
\ (Peter Kringle) (24 Apr 2008)
. \ Kevin Darcy (25 Apr 2008)

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3 msg	Updating Dns srv records via linux client?
1 msg	un-subscribe
3 msg	Register a new host
4 msg	Forwarding for authoritative domain.
1 msg	deleted bind9 files debian

Subject:	Re: DDNS Throttle updates
Group:	Bind-users
From:	Kevin Darcy
Date:	25 Apr 2008

Peter Kringle wrote:
> We have a zone with over 100,000 RR's in it. The problem is, from time to time, this zone requires full rebuilding which
> is done via DDNS updates. And if our scripts which do the DDNS updates start pushing the updates in at full throttle, it
> will cause the servers to slow down to a crawl.
> I am trying to find a way to help mitigate this potential impact on our servers using some method with in BIND. Maybe either
> by limiting, or in some way tweaking the server to handle the higher load.
>
DDNS wasn't really built for this.

Why don't you have your scripts write out a good, old-fashioned zone
file when a rebuild is necessary?

- Kevin