Search Again: Re: OS9 or OSX? From: Men & Mice Support Date: Thursday, September 6, 2001 Time: 2:38:23 pm At 1:39 PM -0500 9/6/01, Juergen Schreck wrote: >Hello QDNS users, > >If all I'm running on a given machine is QDNS, why would I choose to run it >on OSX over OS9? And what Mac machine would you recommend? If you're using QuickDNS' load balancing and fault tolerance mechanism, then the only choice is Mac OS 9. Our load balancing mechanism isn't supported on any other server platform. However, Mac OS 9 simply isn't as stable (nor as fast, for QuickDNS' purposes) as Mac OS X. If load balancing is not an issue, especially given your statement below about hosting large numbers of zones, the better answer is Mac OS X. For hardware, any machine that can run Mac OS X can run QuickDNS with ease, especially given the current price of RAM - a 512 MB DIMM goes for as low as US$27, or so I'm told. >If I chose to run it under Linux, or - god forbid - Windows which machine >would you recommend? Linux, for sure. We don't currently support use of Windows as a server. DNS doesn't require a high-performance machine. With plenty of RAM (even better, plenty of DDR RAM), any current PC ought to be able to fill the bill. >Make you recommendations regardless of the amount of zones. For >conversations sake lets just say 'a lot'. :-) ____________________________________________________________________ Chris Buxton Men & Mice cbuxton@menandmice.com We Make DNS Easy!

Messages In This Thread: OS9 or OSX? by Juergen Schreck on Sep 6, 2001 at 11:40:12 am Re: OS9 or OSX? by Peter Lalor on Sep 6, 2001 at 2:27:32 pm Re: OS9 or OSX? by Men & Mice Support on Sep 6, 2001 at 2:38:23 pm