DNS performance testing - FreeBSD & Solaris - BIND & djbdns

[Brad Knowles]

At 7:25 PM -0400 6/21/01, Kevin Darcy wrote:

>  Wait, you're comparing BIND's *forwarding* performance to its performance
>  serving data from authoritative zones? That's apples and oranges. You should
>  measure those separately.

	That's why the tests are run multiple times -- the first time 
measures the forwarding performance, the second and third times 
measure the caching performance.

	That said, I still think that using forwarding is a bad way to 
test this issue.

-- 
Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles at skynet.be>

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