Search Again: Re: Annoying DNS Problem From: Men & Mice Support Date: Friday, March 26, 2004 Time: 8:11:24 am At 1:28 AM -0800 3/26/04, Scott Haneda wrote: >on 03/25/2004 02:16 PM, Men & Mice Support at cbuxton@menandmice.com wrote: > >> This is definitely a performance issue. You might find that you can >> solve it using one or more of these ideas: >> >> - Upgrade to Mac OS X 10.3. The Unix layer should be faster. >> - Configure your server to forward queries to your NSP's servers. >> - Faster hardware. >> - More bandwidth. > >Is this really true, a 400mhz G3 is not enough to do DNS? I was planning on >moving to just this hardware, a imac as a mnatter of fact, just for DNS, I >can not see DNS needing more, I currently run on a 233 G3 under OS 9 and it >was always told to me that is way overkill. > >I know some people running Bind on 90Mhz under much heavier load than I ever >will. Is there something new about QDNS that needs a lot of horsepower? It depends on the traffic, and also on what other tasks the server is performing. Furthermore, if bandwidth is restricted, processor demand goes up. A 400 MHz machine should be able to answer many thousands of queries per second, bandwidth permitting, assuming it's not doing anything else. However, in the case posted to the list, DNS is not all the machine is doing. In most cases like this, the problem is the bandwidth, and the simplest solution is to forward queries upstream. ____________________________________________________________________ Chris Buxton Men & Mice Customer Support Specialist Making DNS Easy

Messages In This Thread: Annoying DNS Problem by Simon Wright on Mar 15, 2004 at 8:03:25 am Re: Annoying DNS Problem by Men & Mice Support on Mar 26, 2004 at 1:23:15 am Re: Annoying DNS Problem by Scott Haneda on Mar 26, 2004 at 1:35:13 am Re: Annoying DNS Problem by Men & Mice Support on Mar 26, 2004 at 8:11:24 am Re: Annoying DNS Problem by Jim Cobb on Mar 30, 2004 at 10:27:34 am