Search Again: Re: Honest Base Config From: Clarence Kwei Date: Thursday, March 9, 2000 Time: 10:24:00 pm on 3/9/00 4:30 PM, Jerry Pasker-Systems Admin. at info@n-connect.net wrote: >> That's just plain not true. I run my primary DNS on a Power Mac 6100 with >> 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. >> > > 2 million per month averages to 66,000 queries per day. This server would > need to do several times as many queries per day. Even if it only did > ~180,000 per day, for the 500,000 hits, that's still a lot of lookups. > Besides, I've noticed that DNS querries (like mail, and web hits) may be > slow to moderate during part of the day, and then really spike during the > 'busy' times of the day. Maybe I'm not fully understanding DNS traffic... please let me know if I'm off-base with this... I thought that every time a user visits your site, your DNS server gets queried for information. That happens only once per unique visitor since after the first successful query, the information is pretty much set for the entire session - that is future hits from the user during the session do not need repeated DNS queries. That's one part of DNS traffic, the other part is SOA information, which I really don't have a clue how it works. Do the main DNS servers hit your DNS server according to the refresh value in your SOA record? Is it the Expiration or the TTL value? If anyone can shed some light on this, I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks. -- 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