From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 26 21:42:48 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id VAA02458 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 26 Sep 1996 21:42:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA02421 for ; Thu, 26 Sep 1996 21:42:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id VAA02151; Thu, 26 Sep 1996 21:42:23 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 26 Sep 1996 21:42:23 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Swee-Chuan Khoo cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: stress test DNS In-Reply-To: <199609260235.KAA26594@gandalf.asiapac.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 26 Sep 1996, Swee-Chuan Khoo wrote: > I have a 2.1.0 FreeBSD running on P75 16MB. > > I have some people complaining that the DNS is > not responding. > > Any way i can tell that the DNS is not working > well? use 'nslookup' and the 'server xxx' command to set the server to the offending machine, then query away. > Is there any software that i can use to stress test > it and collect some data for me to present to boss to but > a bigger system. Like P200 with 64MB ram. :) Not that I know of. And I don't think named requires a huge machine; from my experience it's rather low-key in terms of resource usage. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major