Search Again: Re: Honest Base Config From: Dale Therio Date: Thursday, March 9, 2000 Time: 4:20:00 pm Keep in mind that you will NOT get 500,000 DNS requests per day, unless you set your TTL to some absurd low value. If you leave your TTL to 1-2 days (or whatever the 'normal' is), you won't be hit that hard. Also, look at where your traffic is coming from. If a lot of it is AOL for example (or any major providers), remember that these providers cache the DNS records. Sometimes for far longer than your TTL values. So while a real low end machine probably won't cut it, I wouldn't think you need the top of th eline either. I was running my DNS on a PM6100 and a PM7500 (at 200 mhz) and was serving about 30,000 pages per day. I never had any slowdowns (that I am aware of or were ever reported to me) that were caused by my DNS. On Thu, 09 Mar 2000 04:44:07 -0500 Clarence Kwei <clarencek@ifurnishing.com> wrote: > > on 3/9/00 3:25 AM, Jerry Pasker-Systems Admin. at > info@n-connect.net wrote: > > > 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. > > Yeah, that's my thinking. I'd hate to hurt performance over > something > unnecessary like a slow DNS server. > > > > 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 > > Interesting idea... the only problem is QDNS is $300 a pop. > :-) > > Thanks for the advice. > > -- > > Clarence > > -> clarencek@ifurnishing.com > > >

Messages In This Thread: Honest Base Config by Clarence Kwei on Mar 9, 2000 at 8:05:00 am Re: Honest Base Config by Jerry Pasker-Systems Admin. on Mar 9, 2000 at 8:25:00 am Re: Honest Base Config by Clarence Kwei on Mar 9, 2000 at 9:44:00 am Re: Honest Base Config by Jesse Proudman on Mar 9, 2000 at 3:21:00 pm Re: Honest Base Config by Dale Therio on Mar 9, 2000 at 4:20:00 pm Re: Honest Base Config by stuff on Mar 9, 2000 at 8:56:00 pm Re: Honest Base Config by Jerry Pasker-Systems Admin. on Mar 9, 2000 at 9:30:00 pm Re: Honest Base Config by Clarence Kwei on Mar 9, 2000 at 10:24:00 pm Re: Honest Base Config by Men & Mice Support on Mar 9, 2000 at 11:54:00 pm Re: Honest Base Config by Global Homes Webmaster on Mar 10, 2000 at 12:06:00 am Re: Honest Base Config by Jesse Proudman on Mar 10, 2000 at 12:15:00 am Re: Honest Base Config by Aaron Lynch on Mar 10, 2000 at 12:34:00 am Re: Honest Base Config by Jesse Proudman on Mar 10, 2000 at 12:44:00 am Re: Honest Base Config by Paul Didzerekis on Mar 10, 2000 at 1:11:00 am Re: Honest Base Config by Jerry Pasker-Systems Admin. on Mar 10, 2000 at 1:23:00 am Re: Honest Base Config by Peter Nilsson on Mar 10, 2000 at 7:59:00 am Re: Honest Base Config by Clarence Kwei on Mar 10, 2000 at 2:33:00 pm Re: Honest Base Config by Peter Lalor on Mar 14, 2000 at 6:36:00 pm Re: Honest Base Config by Systems on Mar 15, 2000 at 6:00:00 pm Re: Honest Base Config by Peter Lalor on Mar 15, 2000 at 11:43:00 pm