Search Again: Re: DNS Speed ? From: Men & Mice Support Date: Saturday, May 6, 2000 Time: 11:58:56 am At 11:01 AM -0400 5/6/00, CMS wrote: >Q. Compare Quick DNS Pro, against a Unix Machine running DNS/Binds; >which would be faster. Check the performance comparison chart (graphic) on this page: <http://www.menandmice.com/products/quickdnspro/>. Nevertheless, the primary factors in the performance of a DNS server are: o Bandwidth o RAM speed o Processor speed roughly in that order. >Q. I have QDNS, on a 6150 workgrp server, if I upgraded the processor, to >a G3 card, would that increase the actual speed of QDNS Pro App ? Possibly. How much traffic is your DNS server getting, and how much of it is for recursive resolution (where it has to query other servers to find the answer)? As I understand it (not being on the engineering staff), RAM speed is more important than processor speed for serving your own domains - a G3 upgrade will come with a faster L2 cache, which will help somewhat. But processor speed can become important under heavy loads of recursive queries (as we've seen before on this list). ____________________________________________________________________ Chris Buxton cbuxton@menandmice.com Men & Mice http://www.menandmice.com Makers of: QuickDNS Pro

Messages In This Thread: DNS Speed ? by CMS on May 6, 2000 at 8:00:53 am Re: DNS Speed ? by andrew on May 6, 2000 at 8:06:03 am Re: DNS Speed ? by Joe LeBlanc on May 6, 2000 at 10:19:29 am Re: DNS Speed ? by Men & Mice Support on May 6, 2000 at 11:58:56 am