Re: Anti Capitalism?

["Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>]

"Rick H. Wesson" writes:
> I would talk to NSI about how much effort their "back end database"
> requires. I believe NSI has about 36 engineers that work on/with their
> database. NSI has about 2 million objects that they must maintain and
> manage for about 800K domains. It is not a trival project.

The size of the tables really doesn't impact much past a certain point
-- it ends up just being a matter of getting a sufficiently solid
database management product.

> Would
> the back end repository not also be responsible for generating the
> DNS db files and also running a whois service not to mention publishing
> all the requests for domains?

It would be responsible for generating reports that would drive the
generation of DNS db files and permit the generation of the whois
database, but I doubt the machine would be running whois itself.

> I don't think we are talking about 3 linux boxes here ;-)

No, but we aren't talking about a lot, either. Its small compared to
many databases I've worked with. The real key is getting a decent fast
commercial DBMS and decent hardware, but none of that is going to cost
a lot of money in real terms.

Perry