From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Jul 11 16:46:53 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from smyk.apk.net (smyk.apk.net [207.54.158.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21E8B37B8D1 for ; Tue, 11 Jul 2000 16:46:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ipswitch@junior.apk.net) Received: from junior.apk.net (ipswitch@junior.apk.net [207.54.158.20]) by smyk.apk.net (8.9.3/8.9.3/apk.990812+rchk1.22+bspm1.13.1.5) with ESMTP id TAA27723 for ; Tue, 11 Jul 2000 19:37:12 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from ipswitch@localhost) by junior.apk.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id TAA27215 for freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org; Tue, 11 Jul 2000 19:37:12 -0400 (EDT) X-Real-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 19:37:12 -0400 From: Ipswitch To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: requirements Message-ID: <20000711193712.A21444@junior.apk.net> References: <4.2.0.58.20000710181742.009c4b30@> <002301bfeb41$82091c60$1301a8c0@bach> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.6i In-Reply-To: <002301bfeb41$82091c60$1301a8c0@bach>; from Brandon DeYoung on Tue, Jul 11, 2000 at 09:07:57AM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, Jul 11, 2000 at 09:07:57AM -0500, Brandon DeYoung wrote: > > >what kind of requirements does a dns server require??? > > >thanks > > A 4 GB hard drive is more than you'd ever need for a DNS box. As far as > other requirements; 64MB RAM should be more than enough. The one I built is > currently running on a 466 Celeron which it hardly uses. If your site is > getting very high traffic volume you may want to increase processor and RAM. If the machine is only running bind, then the HD space requirements for that are low. Logging may take up a fair bit of room. I'd agree that a 4 GB HD is fine. The main thing that a DNS server needs is RAM. Lots of it! last pid: 7830; load averages: 0.42, 0.41, 0.38 19:27:45 40 processes: 39 sleeping, 1 on cpu CPU states: 79.7% idle, 9.5% user, 10.8% kernel, 0.0% iowait, 0.0% swap Memory: 256M real, 7652K free, 7676K swap in use, 505M swap free PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME CPU COMMAND 13381 root 1 33 0 67M 65M sleep 32.5H 13.50% named That's about normal, although I've seen it as high as 100 MB. Zone transfers actually take more CPU and I/O than named itself. I'd recommend something with high quality, like maybe an IBM PC Server or Netfinity. You want something that will be extremely reliable. (A Sun SparcStation 20 in good shape is also ideal, but you probably want to stick with the x86 platform.) Don't bother with a fast hard drive. Go for a cool-running 5400 RPM model that will last longer. A Celeron 466 is probably overkill, although I think I'd prefer a P-II 400 since it has the 100 MHz bus. Perhaps an AMD K6-2 on a Super 7 board? Even a Pentium 200 will probably be enough horsepower for most nameservers. Did I mention that you want lots of RAM? :-) Running RCS on the zone files and named.conf is also a good idea, as are frequent backups. Stuart To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message