[ale] DNS/BIND System recomendations.

[tewkewl at mindspring.com]

dude...We ran bind on bsd box (486) for 5 years....approx. 8,000 user network and it handled the load....

currently our dhcp/dns server is a PIII 550 with 512mb ram....3 18gb scsi drives in raid 5 running kernel 2.2.16

  2:23pm  up 369 days, 11:14,  1 user,  load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
30 processes: 29 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states:  0.1% user,  0.0% system,  0.0% nice, 99.8% idle
Mem:   523876K av,  203952K used,  319924K free,       0K shrd,  113060K buff
Swap:  130552K av,      72K used,  130480K free                   22292K cached


It handles close to a million queries a day and serves addresses to 50+ networks.  :)  Bind has never crashed and dhcpd has never crashed... It is also running TACACS+ (Cisco)

So you do the math!  :) 

-Patrick
....Gotta love free software!

sangell at nan.net wrote:
> Next step to move my company more into the linux fold is about to get under
way. I am going to start migrating away from WINS and towards DNS. I will
be setting up split DNS with I internal server for about 300 clients which
will provide resolution for our entity as well as WAN connectons to our
corporate office in Columbus, GA and several clients scattered across the
Nation. (Currently I am managing hosts files for these) I also plan to set
up another DNS for external resolution instead of relying on Bellsouth, or
what will probably be AT&T in the near future. Since I have never attempted
this before I am looking for suggestions in regards to server hardware
recomendations. I am 99% sure it will be a Compaq Proliant. I may even
decide to upgrade an existing server or two and use the replaced systems
for DNS if requirements are not very high. What do you guys think I need in
terms of disk space, ram, cpu, ect? I am looking to speed up name
resolution and reduce WAN traffic  at the same time so I am not so
concerned with cost but do not want to waste money either.

Also a useful reading recommendation or two wouldn't hurt.

Once again thanks in advance


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