One big reason why it sucks is that you it's limited ability to either allow or deny recursion. There's no middle ground, where you can allow recursive lookups from certain IPs but not from others. This reflects poor product and security design.
However, I really have no idea why you would need to take your DNS offline to edit your zones. There are many tools available that allow you to edit your zones in a scripted fashion while DNS service remains online. Regardless, even if you take your primary DNS server offline for a few minutes, things should still be functional on your secondary DNS servers ... You can also edit your zone files manually en-mass and then simply restart the service and the changes will be picked up immediately. Or if you need to add a wildcard manually, you can just right click the zone and reload it. As towards the original question, I'm not sure what your budget is but your mail volumes are fairly low. If you get a dual procesor machine, 2 gigs of ram, and have one RAID array for OS/spool/logging and another for your mail data your setup should be very fast and last you a long, long time at your current message volumes. Note that I'm referring to separate physical RAID arrays (ex, different set of physical drives) - not simply different logical partitions on the same RAID array. If you wanted to get really wild and crazy, you could also setup separate RAID arrays or even single drives for your spool and logs, but that shouldn't be necessary given your mail volume. We currently process over 200,000 messages per day on SmarterMail with 2 SATA RAID arrays, also running Declude Suite, Sniffer, F-Prot, etc. -Jay -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Darin Cox Sent: Wednesday, May 03, 2006 8:46 AM To: Declude.JunkMail@declude.com Subject: Re: [Declude.JunkMail] OT: Recommendations? Updgrading Equipment. Can you clarify why you think MS DNS sucks? We've used it for years and it has worked perfectly. We also built additional tools to integrate it into our setup and management processes. The only problem or lack of functionality we've experienced is the inability to retrieve a list of subdomains programmatically without parsing the zone file. Darin. ----- Original Message ----- From: "William Stillwell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <Declude.JunkMail@declude.com> Sent: Wednesday, May 03, 2006 8:36 AM Subject: [Declude.JunkMail] OT: Recommendations? Updgrading Equipment. Anybody have any recommendations on a server upgrade? (CPU/RAM/HDD) Suggestions? Running, Imail, Declude JunkMail, Anti-Virus, Mcafee Scanner, Sniffer. As you can tell, we have a ton of "Internal" Mail.. We are currently running a PIII 750 w/512Mb ram, and a 30gig Scsi Mirror. (Two Drives mirrored).. I also want to Dump M$ DNS, as it sucks.. Any Suggestions on a easy to configure alternative, with possible web front end? Here are our STMP Daily Totals for the last couple days. SpamPhrase 75 LocalDeliver 10519 RemoteDeliver 1020 SpamPhrase 61 LocalDeliver 9401 RemoteDeliver 745 SpamPhrase 44 LocalDeliver 5059 RemoteDeliver 73 SpamPhrase 38 LocalDeliver 5271 RemoteDeliver 39 SpamPhrase 61 LocalDeliver 8657 RemoteDeliver 604 SpamPhrase 57 LocalDeliver 10215 RemoteDeliver 865 SpamPhrase 77 LocalDeliver 10634 RemoteDeliver 807 SpamPhrase 62 LocalDeliver 10504 RemoteDeliver 892 --- This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and type "unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail". The archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com. --- This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and type "unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail". The archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com.
