Date: Wed, 08 Oct 1997 05:35:20 +0000 From: Jason Wells <jcwells@u.washington.edu> To: Kris Kirby <kirbykb@airnet.net>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Good nameserver system? Message-ID: <3.0.3.32.19971008053520.007b4340@jcwells.deskmail.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <3431D65F0000D089@goliath.airnet.net> (added by goliath.airnet.net)
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At 22:36 10/7/97 -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. Here is where I get to be a bit philosophical. :) FWIW.... I think a P-100 would run a good namserver. When "slow" computers aren't running bloated OSes and multimedia ooh-ahhs they really kick butt. I can't remember where I read (freebsd newsletter #1 I think) that Yahoo ran their webserver on the measliest of machines for a period. I would think serving up DNS resolves would be even less taxing. I am guessing that a p200 could manage a name service for several ten thousand DNS requests per day. Mind you, I am just yakking. Search harder for someone who actually has run a busy nameserver. Later, Jason Wells
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