Re: Speaking of DNS server software...

[John Levine via NANOG <nanog () lists nanog org>]

It appears that William Herrin via NANOG <nanog () lists nanog org> said:
> Python doesn't work this way. Its memory management is abstracted away
> from the programmer and the programmer does not control its precise
> structure. For Python to access a DNS packet, the programmer must pack
> and unpack an array of bytes using complex software of their own
> devising. You can't just tell Python, "This is the complex data
> structure these bytes contain, let me access the data without
> unpacking it."

The python struct module is pretty fast, since it's written in C.

I recently rewrote the abuse.net DNS server in python doing
white lies on the fly DNSSEC signing.  It's fast enough.

R's,
John
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