> From: Robert <no...@noplace.nowhere>
> Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2008 13:01:16 -0500
>
> On Sun, 14 Dec 2008 14:06:05 +0100, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
>
> > On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 05:09:57PM +0530,
> > Vinay Y S <vi...@vys.in> wrote
> > a message of 23 lines which said:
> >
> >> Also, is there any known deployments of bind of this scale out there?
> >
> > Half of the ".de" name servers are BIND and ".de" has 12 millions of
> > domains, which probably means close to 50 millions of records.
>
> I believe he is talking on one server not spread out over several
> servers. I think he is trying to see the limit on one server as to how
> many records it could serve reliably.
I believe that the limiting factor is not going to be the size of the
database, but how fast the machine can process network requests. Ie,
how many queries per second; If the machine can only handle 10k
queries per second, then the MOST it will see is 10k qps even if 11k
qps are coming in.
Regards,
GRegory Hicks
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