From owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Aug 3 21:40:38 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D6C337B401; Sun, 3 Aug 2003 21:40:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mailhub.webcraft99.com (blis.bernama.com [202.188.124.52]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0DA3043F93; Sun, 3 Aug 2003 21:40:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from one@ensabahnur.net) Received: from localhost (beta.webcraft99.com [127.0.0.1]) by mailhub.webcraft99.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2EA1F19308; Mon, 4 Aug 2003 12:40:33 +0800 (MYT) Received: from mailhub.webcraft99.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (beta.webcraft99.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 34655-10; Mon, 4 Aug 2003 12:40:28 +0800 (MYT) Received: from ensabahnur.net (unknown [202.157.203.86]) by mailhub.webcraft99.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D776319306; Mon, 4 Aug 2003 12:40:24 +0800 (MYT) Message-ID: <3F2DE3B6.6050409@ensabahnur.net> Date: Mon, 04 Aug 2003 12:40:22 +0800 From: En Sabah Nur User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030721 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at mailhub.webcraft99.com Subject: DNS Server Farm X-BeenThere: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Internet Services Providers List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 04 Aug 2003 04:40:38 -0000 Hi there Our company has inherited/bought an ISP outfit which has around 2 million subscribers. Among our first priority is to upgrade the DNS service which has been abysmal according to the users Can someone give me a head-start on a recommended configuration for such DNS outlay which serves 2M+ dial-up users? Are multiple Bind boxes with a hardware load-balancer sufficient and up to the job? If so, which hardware solution (load-balancer) should I be shortlisting? Most of the users' complains has been requests time-outs and bad uptimes, which suggest bad load management and redundancy. As I am most comfortable with FreeBSD, and I intend to deploy it across the boxes we inherited with the deal. Having said that, we do have some Solaris boxens which is lying around. Any ideas and guides is greatly appreciated Thanks -- En Sabah Nur -------------------------------------- Living in LA is like not having a date on Saturday night. -- Candice Bergen