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 -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Barry Margolin Sent: Saturday, September 19, 2009 12:09 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Migrating DNS servers, need advice on hardware In article <[email protected]>, Kaya Saman <[email protected]> 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 as of yet quite in-experienced yet with > certain things so please do not frown upon me for that! - I know many > people here are top notch pro's and I do not fall into that category but > someone who is eager to get there :-) > > Anyhow, I have 4 zone files for 1 domain currently and I'm using 2 > views; internal and external. I hope to expand too once I have more > finances available to me and start mirroring Linux distros and perhaps > even OpenSolaris and BSD as well. But for now it's fairly simple stuff! > > I have noticed however that with the current setup my secondary DNS is > getting used quite a bit too as both systems are doing quite a few > translations - luckily I have a Cisco router in place so my WAN > connection is stable and does not crash like with a consumer based > router...... 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. -- Barry Margolin, [email protected] Arlington, MA *** PLEASE don't copy me on replies, I'll read them in the group *** _______________________________________________ bind-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users _______________________________________________ bind-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users
