Re: Migrating DNS servers, need advice on hardware

2009-09-19 Thread Pedro Alvarez Espinoza
You need to consider three components for memory: OS + other services; the zone files you load + cache you want. On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 6:43 PM, Kaya Saman wrote: > Hi, > > currently I have 2 Solaris 9 boxes in my home based data center running as > primary and secondary dns servers; they are

Re: Migrating DNS servers, need advice on hardware

2009-09-19 Thread Kaya Saman
Pedro Alvarez Espinoza wrote: You need to consider three components for memory: OS + other services; the zone files you load + cache you want. Many thanks Pedro :-) I think since I plan to run with Linux at first say 2-3GB memory should be fine as I will use Zimbra and Apache with it too o

RE: Migrating DNS servers, need advice on hardware

2009-09-19 Thread Frank Bulk
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: bind-users-boun...@lists.isc.org [mailto:bind-users-boun...@lists.isc.org] On Behalf Of Barry Margolin Sent: Sa

Re: Migrating DNS servers, need advice on hardware

2009-09-19 Thread Kaya Saman
Frank Bulk wrote: 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 Silly guess, but a cell phone running linux?? (with static IP could be a mobile domain server) As stated previously I

Re: Migrating DNS servers, need advice on hardware

2009-09-19 Thread Kaya Saman
Kaya Saman wrote: Frank Bulk wrote: 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 Silly guess, but a cell phone running linux?? (with static IP could be a mobile domain server) A

Re: Migrating DNS servers, need advice on hardware

2009-09-19 Thread Sten Carlsen
A very decent performance can be achieved on a K6 330MHz with 128MB, also running all sorts of other servers. This HW is from about 1995 and still sufficient for BIND and more. Kaya Saman wrote: > Frank Bulk wrote: >> Perhaps the inverse would be more interesting: what's the lowest-spec >> hardwar

Re: Migrating DNS servers, need advice on hardware

2009-09-19 Thread Josh Kuo
Small home linksys router running open WRT can do the job, with 16MB of RAM and some low powered MIPS CPU. On Saturday, September 19, 2009, Frank Bulk wrote: > Perhaps the inverse would be more interesting: what's the lowest-spec > hardware that could host an OS that would run the latest version