Migrating DNS servers, need advice on hardware

[Josh Kuo]

Small home linksys router running open WRT can do the job, with 16MB
of RAM and some low powered MIPS CPU.

On Saturday, September 19, 2009, Frank Bulk <frnkblk at iname.com> wrote:
> Perhaps the inverse would be more interesting: what's the lowest-spec
> hardware that could host an OS that would run the latest version of BIND. =)
>
> Frank
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: bind-users-bounces at lists.isc.org
> [mailto:bind-users-bounces at lists.isc.org] On Behalf Of Barry Margolin
> Sent: Saturday, September 19, 2009 12:09 AM
> To: comp-protocols-dns-bind at isc.org
> Subject: Re: Migrating DNS servers, need advice on hardware
>
> In article <mailman.535.1253329254.14796.bind-users at lists.isc.org>,
>  Kaya Saman <SamanKaya at netscape.net> wrote:
>
>> >
>> > Since you haven't mentioned how many zones and records you're hosting,
>> > how do you expect anyone to guess how much hardware you need?
>> >
>> >
>> Yes thank you for pointing that out! I do apologize as I mentioned I've
>> just finished my studies and am as of yet quite in-experienced yet with
>> certain things so please do not frown upon me for that! - I know many
>> people here are top notch pro's and I do not fall into that category but
>> someone who is eager to get there :-)
>>
>> Anyhow, I have 4 zone files for 1 domain currently and I'm using 2
>> views; internal and external. I hope to expand too once I have more
>> finances available to me and start mirroring Linux distros and perhaps
>> even OpenSolaris and BSD as well. But for now it's fairly simple stuff!
>>
>> I have noticed however that with the current setup my secondary DNS is
>> getting used quite a bit too as both systems are doing quite a few
>> translations - luckily I have a Cisco router in place so my WAN
>> connection is stable and does not crash like with a consumer based
>> router......
>
> In private email, he told me he has 59 forward and reverse records in
> the internal view, and 22 of each in the external view.
>
> This is nothing.  A 10-year-old Pentium should be able to handle this
> without breaking a sweat.
>
> --
> Barry Margolin, barmar at alum.mit.edu
> Arlington, MA
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