Search Again: Re: Honest Base Config From: Jerry Pasker-Systems Admin. Date: Friday, March 10, 2000 Time: 1:23:00 am >They actually pay me $15. :( > >:) > >But anyway - This is getting OT. My basic point is older boxes CAN handle >quite a bit of traffic and an iMac is NOT necessary for DNS although if you >have the money would be worth it. > > Jesse Proudman - NineWire Productions > http://www.ninewire.com <-> jesse@ninewire.com > Innovative and Creative Web Design and Hosting > My old DNS server that used to be my primary did about 100,000 look ups per day (most didn't come from the cache) and was a Performa 6220, running at 75Mhz. It's the lowest end PowerMac, and the worse excuse for a Mac, that ever rolled out of Cupertino CA. It did a fairly good job, but I did need to replace it with an iMac. It now does about 20,000 per day, with ease. If your server is going to be answering queries from the outside, most of the answers would come from the zone files on the box, and those are all pre-loaded into the RAM cache. Look ups from cache happen very fast, with little overhead. External look ups are the ones that seem to bog down a DNS server. Maybe something like a fast 040 machine would do the trick. We could discuss this issue to death, but I think it's something that's ultimately going to have to be decided though experimentation. -Jerry

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