On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 4:14 PM, Steve Atkins <st...@blighty.com> wrote: > > On Aug 31, 2012, at 12:45 PM, Scott Marlowe <scott.marl...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> So do they ever go to a site that ends in .org or .info? Tell them to >> stop it right now, as they are relying on PostgreSQL for those sites >> to resolve, and PostgreSQL is too far out of the mainstream. Once >> they've stopped using or visiting .org and .info sites tell them to >> get back to you. > > Mmm. Don't push this line of argument too hard. As I understand it, > Postgresql is used by the registry to keep track of their customers - > whois data, effectively. > > The actual resolution is handled by a different database, or was back > when I knew the details of that end of .org. > > I'm sure there's an Access database somewhere in Facebook, but that > doesn't mean Facebook runs on Access. :)
Unless things have changed, Andrew Sullivan in this message http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-advocacy/2002-09/msg00012.php says: "All interactions with the shared registry system, and any whois queries against whois.afilias.net, are served by a PostgreSQL database." So yeah of course direct service of dns lookup is done via bind servers operating off harvested data, but whois comes right out of a pg database, and live updates go right into a pg database. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
