Re: Operating system recommendation

2011-03-16 Thread Jerry Kemp
I have ran BIND on Sun/Oracle Solaris since 1994 beginning with Solaris 2.3. When I started, that was back in the BIND 4.X days. Solaris has always provided a positive experience for me as a BIND server. Jerry > > On 10-Mar-2011, at 3:52 AM, pollex wrote: > >> Hi, I want to know in your exp

Re: Operating system recommendation

2011-03-15 Thread Paul Ooi Cong Jen
Most of the time it's own preference, we use FreeBSD, because of the light and clean packages. -- Paul Ooi On 10-Mar-2011, at 3:52 AM, pollex wrote: > Hi, I want to know in your experience what is the best operating > system to run bind for an ISP. We currently have Debian for the 5 > Cache s

Re: Operating system recommendation

2011-03-13 Thread Fajar A. Nugraha
On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 1:43 AM, Ben McGinnes wrote: > On 12/03/11 12:30 AM, Lightner, Jeff wrote: >> As the prior poster said RedHat is still supports RHEL4 (7 years or >> more) and RHEL5 (4 years or more) and has now relased RHEL6. > > Actually EOL for RHEL4 was announced last month, one more ye

Re: R: Operating system recommendation

2011-03-13 Thread Ben McGinnes
On 12/03/11 12:30 AM, Lightner, Jeff wrote: > "Linux people and their reinstalls"?! > > Somebody has confused Linux with Windows. We've been running RedHat > Eneterprise Linux (RHEL) systems commercially for several years > (including our DNS servers) and the only time I "reinstall" is when > I'm

Re: R: Operating system recommendation

2011-03-11 Thread Mahlory Usman Ambrosio NCS
re in your organization so > congrats on that. > > -Original Message- > From: Dan [mailto:d...@sunsaturn.com] > Sent: Friday, March 11, 2011 12:33 PM > To: Lightner, Jeff > Cc: bind-users@lists.isc.org > Subject: RE: R: Operating system recommendation > > >

RE: R: Operating system recommendation

2011-03-11 Thread Lightner, Jeff
s@lists.isc.org Subject: RE: R: Operating system recommendation Simply what I meant by "their reinstall" is going to a new major revision or someone rootkitted your box. Either would not pose a problem on freebsd. I have redeployed RHEL systems as well and it required a reinstall, the

RE: R: Operating system recommendation

2011-03-11 Thread Dan
March 11, 2011 12:33 PM To: Lightner, Jeff Cc: bind-users@lists.isc.org Subject: RE: R: Operating system recommendation Simply what I meant by "their reinstall" is going to a new major revision or someone rootkitted your box. Either would not pose a problem on freebsd. I have redeploye

RE: R: Operating system recommendation

2011-03-11 Thread Dan
at the drop of a hat to undo their latest experiments with use of Linux in real data centers. -Original Message- From: bind-users-bounces+jlightner=water@lists.isc.org [mailto:bind-users-bounces+jlightner=water@lists.isc.org] On Behalf Of fddi Sent: Friday, March 11, 2011 4:18 AM T

RE: R: Operating system recommendation

2011-03-11 Thread Lightner, Jeff
iments with use of Linux in real data centers. -Original Message- From: bind-users-bounces+jlightner=water@lists.isc.org [mailto:bind-users-bounces+jlightner=water@lists.isc.org] On Behalf Of fddi Sent: Friday, March 11, 2011 4:18 AM To: bind-users@lists.isc.org Subject: Re: R: Operating

Re: R: Operating system recommendation

2011-03-11 Thread fddi
[mailto:bind-users-bounces+stefano.chiesa=wki...@lists.isc.org] Per conto di pollex Inviato: mercoledì 9 marzo 2011 20.52 A: comp-protocols-dns-b...@isc.org Oggetto: Operating system recommendation Hi, I want to know in your experience what is the best operating system to run bind for an ISP. We

R: Operating system recommendation

2011-03-11 Thread Chiesa Stefano
-Messaggio originale- Da: bind-users-bounces+stefano.chiesa=wki...@lists.isc.org [mailto:bind-users-bounces+stefano.chiesa=wki...@lists.isc.org] Per conto di pollex Inviato: mercoledì 9 marzo 2011 20.52 A: comp-protocols-dns-b...@isc.org Oggetto: Operating system recommendation Hi, I

Re: Operating system recommendation

2011-03-10 Thread Fajar A. Nugraha
On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 9:55 AM, Dan wrote: > > I think there are really 2 sides to this, whether your after an OS easy to > maintain, with great stability, or best performance. I think you'll fall in > love with freebsd if you give it a try, Try explaining that to managerial types who thinks "we

Re: Operating system recommendation

2011-03-10 Thread Dan
I think there are really 2 sides to this, whether your after an OS easy to maintain, with great stability, or best performance. I think you'll fall in love with freebsd if you give it a try, on otherhand if your after as many queries per second for a machine as possible, I have had better exp

Re: Operating system recommendation

2011-03-10 Thread Noel Butler
On Thu, 2011-03-10 at 19:11 -0600, Dan wrote: > > I'll second that, I think everyone starts off on linux as new admins, > then eventually figures out how great freebsd ports collection is. > Also have openbsd's PF firewall at our disposal, along with rebuilding > complete OS in one command, unli

Re: Operating system recommendation

2011-03-10 Thread Fajar A. Nugraha
On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 2:52 AM, pollex wrote: > Hi, I want to know in your experience what is the best operating > system to run bind for an ISP. We currently have Debian for the 5 > Cache servers and for the 2 Authoritative servers. > We have around 111851 success querys in the cache servers and

Re: Operating system recommendation

2011-03-10 Thread Dan
I'll second that, I think everyone starts off on linux as new admins, then eventually figures out how great freebsd ports collection is. Also have openbsd's PF firewall at our disposal, along with rebuilding complete OS in one command, unlike linux people and their "reinstalls" on any problems

Re: Operating system recommendation

2011-03-10 Thread Doug Barton
On 03/09/2011 11:52, pollex wrote: Hi, I want to know in your experience what is the best operating system to run bind for an ISP. We currently have Debian for the 5 Cache servers and for the 2 Authoritative servers. We have around 111851 success querys in the cache servers and around 7267 zones

Re: Operating system recommendation

2011-03-09 Thread Bryan Irvine
On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 11:52 AM, pollex wrote: > Hi, I want to know in your experience what is the best operating > system to run bind for an ISP. We currently have Debian for the 5 > Cache servers and for the 2 Authoritative servers. > We have around 111851 success querys in the cache servers and

Operating system recommendation

2011-03-09 Thread pollex
Hi, I want to know in your experience what is the best operating system to run bind for an ISP. We currently have Debian for the 5 Cache servers and for the 2 Authoritative servers. We have around 111851 success querys in the cache servers and around 7267 zones created in the authoritative servers.