>
> What kind of query rates can a good DNS server sustain these days? Any
> order-of-magnitude design values or something specific such as "a Sega
> Dreamcast running SegaOS and bind 8.7 can sustain a rate of 100
> 'standard' queries a second" would be very helpful.
> --
> Henning Schulzrinne http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~hgs
>
Here is a snippet from another discussion that occured last week.
The context is a server that hosts the popular gtlds.
"...sees on average 2500
queries per second with peaks of around 5000 queries per second."
This is on current Sparc HW (a 450 as I remember) and bind 8.1.2.
--bill
