From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 25 09:00:21 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA22379 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 25 Sep 1998 09:00:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from implode.root.com (implode.root.com [198.145.90.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA22298 for ; Fri, 25 Sep 1998 09:00:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from root@implode.root.com) Received: from implode.root.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by implode.root.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA25652; Fri, 25 Sep 1998 09:00:45 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199809251600.JAA25652@implode.root.com> To: Roman Katsnelson cc: "q's" Subject: Re: DNS hardware needs under 2.2.7 In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 24 Sep 1998 11:17:40 EDT." <360A6294.FB5A5ED0@graphnet.com> From: David Greenman Reply-To: dg@root.com Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1998 09:00:44 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >We are migrating all our Internet-related servers from Solaris to >FreeBSD. I've already moved the news and web servers, and DNS is next. >Here's my question: does DNS require a separate machine, or are its >resource requirements rather small? The web server runs on a Pentium 2 >266/128M/4G IDE. Should I run BIND on that or build its own server? Any >input much appreciated as always. BIND doesn't seem to consume a whole lot of CPU, but it does consume a lot of memory - typically 30-40MB on a busy server. That may be reason enough to have it on a seperate machine. We have both Apache and DNS on the same server at WC CDROM, but we have lots of memory in the machine (512MB) and the machine has CPU to burn (333MHz Pentium-II and only 1/2 million hits/day). -DG David Greenman Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message