Date: Thu, 9 Oct 1997 08:12:41 -0400 (EDT) From: Brian Clapper <bmc@WillsCreek.COM> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Good nameserver system? Message-ID: <199710091212.IAA01735@current.willscreek.com> In-Reply-To: <34764654@toto.iv>
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Gary Schrock wrote: > At 08:20 AM 10/7/97 -0400, you 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. > > I'm running a secondary nameserver on a 486dx2/66 with 16 megs of ram. > There's probably only 20 machines that use it though, so it's not real > heavily loaded. Another data point: At my former employer, we used a 486 DX2/66 with 32 MB of RAM, running BSD/OS 2.1, as our internal name server, internal mail relay, and HTTP proxy gateway for two years. It worked fine, and served as the sole DNS server and SMTP gateway for about 100 machines. It forwarded its Internet-bound SMTP traffic and Internet-bound DNS traffic to our firewall bastion host, but was entirely responsible for all intranet e-mail and DNS. We rarely had to reboot it--a good thing, given that we'd never gotten around to setting up an internal secondary DNS. (It was so reliable that setting up a secondary was given low priority, by default.) The single biggest drain on its resources was e-mail, not DNS. We finally replaced it with a slightly beefed-up Pentium 133, with extra RAM and disk, when the e-mail load got too high. ----- Brian Clapper, bmc@WillsCreek.COM, http://WWW.WillsCreek.COM/ "I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and members of the Senate." -- former Vice-President Dan Quayle
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