Search Again: Feature Request WAS:(Re: zone files) From: Paul Didzerekis Date: Wednesday, December 8, 1999 Time: 1:37:00 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 Chris, This makes me think of a feature request. How about if you guys make the frequency of time that QuickDNS checks for modifications user (um... I mean Admin) configurable. I have seen QuickDNS doing this and it seems that it does it about once every 30 seconds or so on our primary DNS server. Thanks, Paul Didzerekis Owner, Three Rivers Internet http://www.3-rivers.com Professional website hosting, authoring, marketing, & consulting. No Setup Fees - - - Really!

Messages In This Thread: Feature Request WAS:(Re: zone files) by Paul Didzerekis on Dec 8, 1999 at 1:37:00 am Re: Feature Request WAS:(Re: zone files) by Mia''s Virtual Post Office on Dec 8, 1999 at 1:41:00 am Re: Feature Request WAS:(Re: zone files) by Men & Mice Support on Dec 8, 1999 at 1:54:00 am Re: Feature Request WAS:(Re: zone files) by Paul Didzerekis on Dec 8, 1999 at 2:06:00 am Re: Feature Request WAS:(Re: zone files) by Mia''s Virtual Post Office on Dec 8, 1999 at 2:20:00 am Re: Feature Request WAS:(Re: zone files) by Men & Mice Support on Dec 8, 1999 at 2:35:00 am Re: Feature Request WAS:(Re: zone files) by Johan Solve on Dec 8, 1999 at 8:14:00 am