Thanks Emmanuel
----- Original Message -----
From: "Emmanuel Seyman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, February 22, 2002 12:20 PM
Subject: Re: [OT] Three Questions about BIND


> On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 11:42:12AM +0200, Enrico Payne wrote:
> >
> > 1) If I have many domains, and I want to split them between 2 servers
> > running mail and web serving, should I
> >         a) Register the primary domain on the server that is running the
> > mail and web stuff or,
> >         b) Should I keep 1 server running all the domains as primary,
and
> > the other as slave?
>
> FWIW, I choose b) when I had to make a choice.
> One machine is DNS primary server for all my domains and the
> other is DNS secondary and mail server.
>
> > 2) What is the expected cpu usage for bind on a server that has +- 30
> > domains? (Mine currently goes from +-30% to 99%, but averages out at
92%)
>
> CPU usage? It should be virtually nil.
>
> [seyman@ns1 seyman]$ uptime
>   3:03pm  up 84 days,  3:41,  1 user,  load average: 0.05, 0.03, 0.00
>
> The increase in load-average is because I use ssh on my machines
> and generating keys and comparing them uses CPU resources.
>
> This is a Pentium 150MHz with 64Mo RAM.
> It's DNS for 130 domains.
>
> > 3) If the cpu usage (as per question 2) for my bind setup is to high,
how do
> > I correct this?
>
> I'ld recommend putting DNS on a server that does only that.
>
> Emmanuel
>
>
>
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