suggetsed distro for Bind

[Ondřej Surý]

Docker/Podman is just a container, not *-virtualization platform, so there’s full access to the underlying hardware.
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> On 23. 7. 2025, at 15:10, Carlos Horowicz via bind-users <bind-users at lists.isc.org> wrote:
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> I’m not sure if a container will pass through the CPU instruction set required to leverage hardware acceleration on newer (or even not-so-new) Intel processors. In KVM, for example, you have to enable it explicitly.
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> One way to check for supported instructions is:
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> grep -o -w 'aes\|sha_ni\|pclmulqdq\|rdseed\|rdrand\|avx\|avx2\|avx512' /proc/cpuinfo | sort | uniq
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> Hardware acceleration can be beneficial if you’re running a resolver that performs a lot of DNSSEC validation—SHA_NI in particular can speed up operations involving DS/NSEC/NSEC3 records. That said, if you’re only running an authoritative server or a small-scale resolver, crypto acceleration may not be critical.
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> Fwiw, my preferred distro for running BIND9 is Debian 12—it includes dnstap support out of the box.
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>> On 23/07/2025 14:57, Marc wrote:
>> Maybe consider running it in a container and keeping nice and small with alpine linux
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>>> I'd like to migrate from bind 9.11 lo last version.
>>> This service is acting as cache dns server and It' running on Centos 7
>>> server, what Linux distro do you suggest me for new Bind?
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