On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 10:43:42AM -0500, Mark Bucciarelli wrote: > I have seen some benchmarking stat's on Bind [1] and NSD that > compare FreeBSD 6.1 to 4.11, and 4.11 kick 6.1's ass and then > wipes up the floor with it. > > I'm going to be putting a DNS server in production soon and was > planning to use FreeBSD, but now I'm wondering if OpenBSD would > be a better choice from purely a performance perspective. > > I understand performance is secondary to security for this > project, but I am curious what the numbers are in this specific > case. > > Does anyone have stats on Bind performance on OpenBSD? (I saw > the fefe page--looks old.) > > And when does performance really start to matter for a DNS > server? Say I host 500 web sites and 500 email domains with > "average" traffic, for some value of average. Is a limit of > 15,000 DNS queries/second ever going to be a problem? If not, > when could it become a problem? > > It will be my first DNS server, so I don't have a gut feel for > this stuff yet. >
We are running NSD on a Intel Pentium III to serve as cctld (country top level domain). The box is currently doing around 100 lookups per second and I consider this a busy DNS box and the box is totaly idle. -- :wq Claudio
