Thanks Daniel, I really appreciate your help. SA
On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 1:34 PM, Daniel Deighton <ddeighton-...@aplura.com>wrote: > > > On 05/03/2012 02:44 PM, Samad Agha wrote: > > Thanks for your help Eivind. > > > >>Depends, how long is a piece of string? I don't know what amount of > >>traffic you're currently seeing, or what your uptime requirements are. > > > > - Are there tools to find out about current amount of traffic? > > - Our uptime requirements are basically from 6am to 6pm during city's > > business hours. > > > >>Estimate what amount of traffic you're seeing during prime time. How > > many >queries per second? > > > > - Again, how do I find out? > > It is fairly easy to find out your query load using BIND. You will just > need to enable query logging (if it isn't already enabled) and use the > data to calculate your queries per second from the data. > > Getting the information from your Windows DNS servers is not as easy. > You will likely need to put your Windows DNS servers into debug mode to > get any sort of query logging and the output isn't exactly pretty. You > could also get the data by taking packet captures and/or using a tool > such as dnssnarf, dnsdump or some other tool that another list member > might recommend. > > > > >>I'd normally not recommend running BIND on slower > > multi-threaded Sun/Oracle >servers like the T-series, you'll normally be > > better off with fewer threads but >higher clock speeds from typical > > Intel/AMD systems.(caveat: I haven't bench->marked BIND 9.9.x, which > > might have improved this). > > > > - Currently I have two: > > Dell PowerEdge 2950 servers with two Intel Xeon 3.0GHZ CPUs, and > > 4GB RAM each running RHEL 5.8 OS > > > > > > Thanks again, > > SA > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to > unsubscribe from this list > > > > bind-users mailing list > > bind-users@lists.isc.org > > https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users > _______________________________________________ > Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to > unsubscribe from this list > > bind-users mailing list > bind-users@lists.isc.org > https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users >
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