On Fri, 09 Jan 2004, Robert E. Seastrom wrote:
I'm just hoping that the choice of a time_t as serial is not a harbinger of djbdns in the gtld servers...
No. All 13 .com/.net name servers now run ATLAS (and have for just over a year), our own from-scratch DNS server implementation. Nothing else met our requirements (such as performance, scaling, and price per query). The size of the .com zone is now well into 64-bit space and we handle over 10 billion queries across all the servers in a typical day, so there are some interesting challenges. ATLAS is also tied in directly to the .com/.net registry database to allow the more frequent updates alluded to in my original posting. The architecture is pretty cool, but unfortunately we don't (yet) have any publicly available white papers on it. Matt