Questions about DNS performance

[Simon Waters]

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Joaquin J. Domens wrote:
>
> We're running BIND 8.3.4 on 4 solaris boxes (NetraT1) with 512
MB RAM
> each one. DNS is splitted so this boxes are without any
authoritative
> zones, they running just BIND.

Take a peak at the query mix (off peak should be fine if it
varies smoothly), it maybe that the servers should be
authoritative for zones such as RFC1918 address space, or similar.

I'm sure you can get substantially more throughput out of the
same hardware if you are minded to put the effort in, be it
compiler options, OS patches and tuning.
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