Date: Wed, 8 Oct 1997 00:59:28 -0500 (CDT) From: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@futuresouth.com> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: Kris Kirby <kirbykb@airnet.net>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Good nameserver system? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971008005417.11552C-100000@shell.futuresouth.com> In-Reply-To: <19971008133608.12263@lemis.com>
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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. > > Greg > I'd have to agree. I'm thinking about setting up an in-house network with a 56k or cable modem connection, and I have a 386/40, soon-to-be 16 meg RAM, a 100 and a 40 meg hard drive, that's just screaming to become a nameserver. Probably a print server too, but... named just doesn't take up all that much; unless you're the ml.org nameserver or something.. ;) *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* | FreeBSD; the way computers were meant to be | * FreeBSD: turning PCs into workstations * | Windows: turning workstations into typewriters | * fullermd@futuresouth.com :-} MAtthew Fuller * | http://keystone.westminster.edu/~fullermd | *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
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