Thanks for your help Eivind.<div><br></div><div>>Depends, how long is a piece of string? I don't know what amount of<br>>traffic you're currently seeing, or what your uptime requirements are. </div><div><br></div>
<div>- Are there tools to find out about current amount of traffic?</div><div>- Our uptime requirements are basically from 6am to 6pm during city's business hours.</div><div><br></div><div>>Estimate what amount of traffic you're seeing during prime time. How many >queries per second?</div>
<div><br></div><div>- Again, how do I find out?</div><div><br></div><div>>I'd normally not recommend running BIND on slower multi-threaded Sun/Oracle >servers like the T-series, you'll normally be better off with fewer threads but >higher clock speeds from typical Intel/AMD systems.(caveat: I haven't bench->marked BIND 9.9.x, which might have improved this).</div>
<div><br></div><div>- Currently I have two:</div><div> Dell PowerEdge 2950 servers with two Intel Xeon 3.0GHZ CPUs, and 4GB RAM each running RHEL 5.8 OS</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Thanks again,</div><div>
SA</div>