[rbldnsd] question of efficiency

[Brian Bruns]

On Monday, January 24, 2005 12:57 AM [EST], Jeff Chan wrote:

> On Sunday, January 23, 2005, 7:34:58 PM, Robin Frank wrote:
>> Has anyone ever tested the relative efficiency of and rbldnsd zone
>> of say 100,000 entries versus a postfix access map in a mysqld
>> databse?
>
>> If not, can anyone hazard a guess?
>
> IIRC rbldnsd is based on a much leaner database than mysql, so
> it ought to be faster.  The queries are extremely straightforward
> too so should be trivial to optimize in ways a more general
> database can't.
>
> Jeff C.

Lower overhead.  DNS queries are alot quicker and less overhead then
MySQL calls.  No tearup/teardown.  Of course you dont have write
abilities through dns queries.

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