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Re: QuickDNS in the background

From: Nicholas Orr
Date: Tuesday, March 27, 2001
Time: 3:49:12 pm

I run Quick DNS in the background with EIMS on a 7200/75 with 32MB ram
and a 500MB HD. So far no troubles. I don't have have a heavy user
base, but i've tried both apps in the foreground and it makes no
difference to my response times.

Nick

On Wednesday, March 28, 2001, at 12:03 AM, US Billing_John wrote:

> Does anyone have experience with performance if QDNS is in the
> background?
>
> Example: EIMS and QDNS on the same box with the finder in the front.
> A 266
> G3, with 192 megs RAM and OS 9.1. Two IPs with QDNS on the main IP, and
> EIMS on a secondary.
>
> Comments or suggestions?
>
> --
>
> John Bernhoft
> US Billing, Inc.
> **************************
> http://www.usbilling.com
>
>> From: Mia's Virtual Post Office <list@mia.net>
>> Reply-To: "QuickDNS Talk" <quickdns-talk@lists.menandmice.com>
>> Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 16:57:02 -0600
>> To: "QuickDNS Talk" <quickdns-talk@lists.menandmice.com>
>> Subject: Re: QuickDNS reliability questions
>>
>> ahclist said:
>>
>>>>
>>>> I was poking around on the Men And Mice web site and I wasn't able
>>>> find an
>>>> upgrade price for QuickDNS Pro 3.5 for Mac OS X.
>>>>
>>>> I'm doing a cost analysis for upgrading our server to Mac OS X and
>>>> would
>>>> really appreciate an approximate price.
>>>
>>> Does 3.0 crash as much as 2.2.1 does under tb2 administration. About
>>> every fourth time I try to quit QDNS while using remote admin in TB2,
>>> the QDNS server program will not quit politely. Really hoping now
>>> that 3.0 has been out a while, folks have a feeling for how reliable
>>> it is proving.
>>
>> I would say that for us stability has been about the same.. Quitting of
>> QDNS via Tb2 is really no different than quitting QDNS locally. I
>> really
>> do not think this is a QDNS issue though.. We see the same with EIMS,
>> and
>> a number of TCP/IP based apps.. More to do with OT. In any event, I do
>> not really recommend quitting QDNS. If you have to quit it, then
>> reboot
>> the box.
>>>
>>> Also, how stable is the remote administration software?
>>>
>> I have not had a problem with the Admin.. I love it. It makes life
>> much
>> easier.
>>
>> Also, so far our crashing problem has disappeared since talking to
>> Steve
>> Crisp (had a few beers that night) on the phone. He suggested we knock
>> our logging option for our QDNS logs to "minimal", along with trashing
>> some TB2 stuff. We left the TB2 stuff for now, but did change the
>> logging options. So far the logs are tiny, and the box has not given
>> us
>> any trouble. No I did just get back from a remote POP, where I had to
>> manually reboot ns2, which puked over the weekend. Even Powerkey could
>> not help on this one.. Very strange. But it is working now.
>>
>>
>>
>> jer (jer@mia.net)
>>
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