Date: Wed, 08 Oct 1997 02:14:24 -0500 From: Al Johnson <Al.Johnson@AJC.State.Net> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Good nameserver system? Message-ID: <343B32D0.C2D8E9B9@AJC.State.Net> References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971008005417.11552C-100000@shell.futuresouth.com>
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Matthew D. Fuller wrote: > > On Wed, 8 Oct 1997, Greg Lehey wrote: > > > On Tue, Oct 07, 1997 at 10:36:22PM -0400, Kris Kirby wrote: > > > What would be a good system for making a nameserver? I'm guessing P-200 or > > > better and PPro-200. This would be a FreeBSD system, running named or a > > > faster nameserver. And a 500M-2GB disk cache. > > > > Are you planning to run a name server for a large network provider, > > including a large number of secondary servers? Then you might be on > > the right lines. I've always found that an old 386 with 8 MB of > > memory does a pretty good job. My name server, the primary for my > > domain, uses about 1 MB of data. In the last two days, it has used 22 > > seconds of CPU time on a P5/133. Depending on many things Named can grow to be a real best. I work on a DEC Alpha running the packaged Named (ya I know change to the latest release of BIND) and last night when I checked on it, it was consuming over 24MB of memory, virtually no disk space but way too much memory. -- Al
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