Search Again: Re: zone files From: Men & Mice Support Date: Wednesday, December 8, 1999 Time: 1:19:00 am At 7:11 PM -0600 12/7/99, Mia's Virtual Post Office wrote: >Men & Mice Support said: > >>At 4:09 PM -0600 12/7/99, Mia's Virtual Post Office wrote: >>>just how many zone files/domains can QDNS accomodate? Is there a >>>limitation, more specifically, a limitation with the MacOS? >> >>To some extent, it depends on which version of the MacOS. We have >>customers who have several thousand domains hosted on one QuickDNS >>Pro server. > >I guess more of what I am getting at, is, does - or how does, QDNS handle >each zone file. Does it open each zone as say, EIMS does with a domain? > >We have around 1600 or so on a 8550/200 running OS 8.5.1 At startup, each file is opened, read into memory, and closed. Files are not opened simultaneously. After that, once every few minutes, QuickDNS scans the folder's contents, looking at modification dates. If a file's mod date doesn't match what it had when it was last read, the file is dumped out of memory and re-read. ____________________________________________________________________ Chris Buxton cbuxton@menandmice.com Men & Mice http://www.menandmice.com Makers of: QuickDNS Pro

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