Re: Migrating DNS servers, need advice on hardware

2009-09-25 Thread Kaya Saman
Other means: The BIND manual tells how to turn on bind's query log, which is normally turned off for performance/resource reasons. On a very lightly loaded DNS server, it can be left on, and on a medium-loaded server, it may be practical to turn it on for a short while to collect some usag

Re: Migrating DNS servers, need advice on hardware

2009-09-25 Thread John Wobus
How can observer the query count? Is there a command or table or something or is it just how many hits the systems gets on port 53 identified from some form of logging software? BIND logs hit statistics periodically to syslog, and you can use "rndc stats" to append statistics immediately to a fi

Re: Migrating DNS servers, need advice on hardware

2009-09-20 Thread Alan Clegg
Frank Bulk wrote: > Perhaps the inverse would be more interesting: what's the lowest-spec > hardware that could host an OS that would run the latest version of BIND. =) It's not exactly "low-end" hardware, but I have BIND 9.4.2 running on my iPhone. AlanC _

Re: Migrating DNS servers, need advice on hardware

2009-09-19 Thread Josh Kuo
est version of BIND. =) > > Frank > > -Original Message- > From: bind-users-boun...@lists.isc.org > [mailto:bind-users-boun...@lists.isc.org] On Behalf Of Barry Margolin > Sent: Saturday, September 19, 2009 12:09 AM > To: comp-protocols-dns-b...@isc.org > Subject:

Re: Migrating DNS servers, need advice on hardware

2009-09-19 Thread Sten Carlsen
A very decent performance can be achieved on a K6 330MHz with 128MB, also running all sorts of other servers. This HW is from about 1995 and still sufficient for BIND and more. Kaya Saman wrote: > Frank Bulk wrote: >> Perhaps the inverse would be more interesting: what's the lowest-spec >> hardwar

Re: Migrating DNS servers, need advice on hardware

2009-09-19 Thread Kaya Saman
Kaya Saman wrote: Frank Bulk wrote: Perhaps the inverse would be more interesting: what's the lowest-spec hardware that could host an OS that would run the latest version of BIND. =) Frank Silly guess, but a cell phone running linux?? (with static IP could be a mobile domain server) A

Re: Migrating DNS servers, need advice on hardware

2009-09-19 Thread Kaya Saman
Frank Bulk wrote: Perhaps the inverse would be more interesting: what's the lowest-spec hardware that could host an OS that would run the latest version of BIND. =) Frank Silly guess, but a cell phone running linux?? (with static IP could be a mobile domain server) As stated previously I

RE: Migrating DNS servers, need advice on hardware

2009-09-19 Thread Frank Bulk
Sent: Saturday, September 19, 2009 12:09 AM To: comp-protocols-dns-b...@isc.org Subject: Re: Migrating DNS servers, need advice on hardware In article , Kaya Saman wrote: > > > > Since you haven't mentioned how many zones and records you're hosting, > > how do yo

Re: Migrating DNS servers, need advice on hardware

2009-09-19 Thread Kaya Saman
Pedro Alvarez Espinoza wrote: You need to consider three components for memory: OS + other services; the zone files you load + cache you want. Many thanks Pedro :-) I think since I plan to run with Linux at first say 2-3GB memory should be fine as I will use Zimbra and Apache with it too o

Re: Migrating DNS servers, need advice on hardware

2009-09-19 Thread Pedro Alvarez Espinoza
You need to consider three components for memory: OS + other services; the zone files you load + cache you want. On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 6:43 PM, Kaya Saman wrote: > Hi, > > currently I have 2 Solaris 9 boxes in my home based data center running as > primary and secondary dns servers; they are

Re: Migrating DNS servers, need advice on hardware

2009-09-18 Thread Kaya Saman
ptember 18, 2009 11:44 PM To: James Pratt Subject: Re: Migrating DNS servers, need advice on hardware Hmm... are you a student or admin?? As your email states you from Norwich university! Is that Norwich in UK or US?? Kaya ___ bind-users mailing

RE: Migrating DNS servers, need advice on hardware

2009-09-18 Thread James Pratt
September 18, 2009 11:44 PM >> To: James Pratt >> Subject: Re: Migrating DNS servers, need advice on hardware >> >> Hmm... are you a student or admin?? As your email states you from >> Norwich university! Is that Norwich in UK or US?? >> >> Kaya

Re: Migrating DNS servers, need advice on hardware

2009-09-18 Thread Kaya Saman
In private email, he told me he has 59 forward and reverse records in the internal view, and 22 of each in the external view. This is nothing. A 10-year-old Pentium should be able to handle this without breaking a sweat. Thanks Barry, as I did mention in the beginning it is a home lab

Re: Migrating DNS servers, need advice on hardware

2009-09-18 Thread Barry Margolin
In article , Kaya Saman wrote: > > > > In private email, he told me he has 59 forward and reverse records in > > the internal view, and 22 of each in the external view. > > > > This is nothing. A 10-year-old Pentium should be able to handle this > > without breaking a sweat. > > > > > Than

Re: Migrating DNS servers, need advice on hardware

2009-09-18 Thread Barry Margolin
In article , Kaya Saman wrote: > > > > Since you haven't mentioned how many zones and records you're hosting, > > how do you expect anyone to guess how much hardware you need? > > > > > Yes thank you for pointing that out! I do apologize as I mentioned I've > just finished my studies and am

Re: Migrating DNS servers, need advice on hardware

2009-09-18 Thread Kaya Saman
Since you haven't mentioned how many zones and records you're hosting, how do you expect anyone to guess how much hardware you need? Yes thank you for pointing that out! I do apologize as I mentioned I've just finished my studies and am as of yet quite in-experienced yet with certain th

Re: Migrating DNS servers, need advice on hardware

2009-09-18 Thread Barry Margolin
In article , Kaya Saman wrote: > Hi, > > currently I have 2 Solaris 9 boxes in my home based data center running > as primary and secondary dns servers; they are Sun Netra T105's with > 440MHz SPARC prcossors and 320MB of RAM. > > http://www.optiplex-networks.com/lab/lab.html > > Basically

Migrating DNS servers, need advice on hardware

2009-09-18 Thread Kaya Saman
Hi, currently I have 2 Solaris 9 boxes in my home based data center running as primary and secondary dns servers; they are Sun Netra T105's with 440MHz SPARC prcossors and 320MB of RAM. http://www.optiplex-networks.com/lab/lab.html Basically as I am going to be moving abroad since I have fin