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That's just plain not true. I run my primary DNS on a Power Mac 6100 with
Re: Honest Base Config
From: Jesse Proudman
Date: Thursday, March 9, 2000
Time: 3:21:00 pm
40 megs ram and it takes over 2 million queries per month. My secondary
server is on a Quadra 600 with 28 megs ram.
Primary is ns1.ninewire.com
Secondary is ns2.ninewire.com
Feel free to test the speed but they seem quick to me.
Jesse Proudman - NineWire Productions
http://www.ninewire.com <-> jesse@ninewire.com
Innovative and Creative Web Design and Hosting
> -----Original Message-----
> From: quickdns-talk@lists.menandmice.com
> [mailto:quickdns-talk@lists.menandmice.com]On Behalf Of Jerry
> Pasker-Systems Admin.
> Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2000 12:25 AM
> To: QuickDNS Talk
> Subject: Re: Honest Base Config
>
>
> >I'd like to run my own DNS servers, but would like to dedicate a
> relatively
> >low-end machine for the task if possible.
> >
> >I've seen the requirements for QDNS:
> >
> >System 7 or later
> >2048K RAM
> >Open Transport 1.1.1 or later, or MacTCP 2.0.6 or later
> >Macintosh with a 68020 or later CPU
> >
> >The above implies something like an SE/30 would work, but I would imagine
> >that such a machine might be a little sluggish in response and processing
> >numerous requests.
> >
> >I'd like to get an honest response on what would be a base
> machine (machine,
> >CPU, RAM, OS) for running QDNS Pro for a site that handles
> approx. 500,000
> >hits a day (not my own unfortunately).
> >
> >Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
> >
> >--
> >
> >Clarence
> >
> >-> clarencek@ifurnishing.com
>
>
> Get the cheapest iMac you can find, 233Mhz or better with 64MB of RAM, and
> give a large partition of RAM to QDNS. If DNS is slow, it makes
> everything
> else appear slow. Don't skimp on DNS.
>
> If you're going to have a few hundred thousand DNS requests per day, you
> are out of the "low-end" realm. Sorry, if you want to do it right, a low
> end Mac probably won't cut it.
>
> That's my 2 cents.
>
> Here's a fairly wacky idea though, that may or may not work.........
>
> If all the DNS requests are for domains that are being hosted, you could
> get 10 or so Macs with 68030 processors, (68030 so you could run a recent
> version of Open Transport) and register them all with the
> InterNIC, one as
> a primary server, and 9 as secondary servers, and the requests should be
> fairly load balanced across them. You'd have to set up all your
> domains to
> use the 10 DNS boxes, but it just might work, especially if you have
> plenty of low end Macs to dedicate to DNS servers. It'd probably be
> cheaper to get an older iMac (or two) though. You've have to buy several
> copies of QDNS Pro for all those machines.
>
> -Jerry
>
>
>
>
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