On Fri, Apr 01, 2005 at 05:21:09PM -0800, Tobias Speckbacher wrote: > > Why do you want a MySQL back-end? The DNS works just fine under look > > with the existing flat-file backends. > > True but flat files sometimes don't provide the flexibility you might > need. > A web hosting company hosting 10's of thousands of domains might be a > good example. Think about tech support needing to change an entry. Or > automatic provisioning of domains, or parking domains. True, but I believe that small domains like .com and .net are hosted using flat files. There are a few entries there... > This is a lot easier to do with a DB backend. Of course you could store > it all in a db and then write some scripts to dump the flat files and > cycle the server. Doubt that would be very practical though. You wouldn't cycle the server - you'd use dynamic updates. -- Ed Wilts, RHCE Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:ewilts@xxxxxxxxxx Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
