2.4 kernel and bind 8.2.3 - REL.

paul j paul at netpacq.com
Mon Jun 25 01:00:13 UTC 2001


At 02:00 PM 6/24/2001, you wrote:
>At 9:25 AM -0700 6/24/01, paul j wrote:
>
>>>How big of a zone are you running?
>>
>>  Lets see..... I have over 3,500 names in one of my name servers.
>
>         My former employer (the largest ISP in Belgium) had over 7000 
> zones that they were supporting on their nameservers, and most zones had 
> more than one name (some had many more than one name).  So, while 3500 
> names may be considerably larger than many sites, it's not really all 
> that large.  As another data point, the "small" zone benchmarks that Matt 
> Simerson has been doing are based on having more than 65,000 names in a 
> single zone.

Have a link for the results?


>>>    How heavily used is this name server?
>>
>>  Very heavily...
>
>         Please define this term.  How many queries per second are you seeing?

About 10 Per sec.



>--
>Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles at skynet.be>
>
>/*        efdtt.c  Author:  Charles M. Hannum <root at ihack.net>          */
>/*       Represented as 1045 digit prime number by Phil Carmody         */
>/*     Prime as DNS cname chain by Roy Arends and Walter Belgers        */
>/*                                                                      */
>/*     Usage is:  cat title-key scrambled.vob | efdtt >clear.vob        */
>/*   where title-key = "153 2 8 105 225" or other similar 5-byte key    */
>
>dig decss.friet.org|perl -ne'if(/^x/){s/[x.]//g;print pack(H124,$_)}'

Best regards,
Paul Jacobs /Senior Network Eng.
Netpacq Systems Inc.
http://www.netpacq.com
mailto:paul at netpacq.com
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