Standby dns requirements

[Mark.Andrews at nominum.com]

	All I would be worried about is having enough real memory.

	Mark

> 	Our site normally uses a Sun Sparc Ultra as our primary
> DNS running Bind-8.2pl5.  We support about 20,000 IP numbers on
> campus.  I want to put a standby Debian Linux box in the form of
> a Dell Dimention 266 with 64 MB of RAM in service while the Sun
> gets a new OS.  The Dell will be running bind-8.2pl7 and dhcpd
> during this time and I am hoping it will hold up the load.
> 
> 	Is this a realistic expectation?  We will probably do
> this in an off-peak time, but we are a 24/7 operation so there is
> really no good time to be down.
> 
> 	The Sun Sparc we are subbing out has 512 megs of RAM and
> a 143 MHZ clock.
> 
> 	Generally, I am curious as to how large an organization
> can get and be able to use a high-quality P.C. running Linux.
> 
> Martin McCormick 405 744-7572   Stillwater, OK
> OSU Center for Computing and Information services Data Communications Group
> 
> 
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