Re: high performance caching bind server

[Gregor Hermens <gregor@a-mazing.de>]

Hi,

Am Montag, 12. März 2007 10:43 schrieb Jean-Paul Blaquiere:
> What do people use/recommend for high performance name serving?
> I currently have a few servers running bind9 (9.2.4-1sarge2) serving
> an average 750 requests per second running on Debian/sarge.  kernel-2.4.32
> (the stats say: low: 0.00, peak: 2500, avg: 750)
...
> We're either going to replace these, or if there is something we can do
> to poke it and make them happier, we'll do that.

take a look at dnscache:

http://packages.debian.org/stable/net/djbdns-installer

It's a caching-only server, so you don't get the overhead of using a 
full-featured bind. I have a couple of them running for years without any 
problem.

hth
Gregor
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