I appreciate your reply. However, I do think it is a bit unfair to group
BIND on NT with MS DNS.
If anyone has any evidence that BIND on NT will choke at a certain point,
I'd sure like to know about it. I operate in co-locate situation, so I pay
$$$ per month for every box. Keeping BIND running on NT with a few other
things save me a ton of money, even if the Linux box and software would be
nearly free. However, if there is some evidence that at a certain point BIND
is going to melt as my trafic increases, I'd be greatful for some warning.
Thanks,
Paul Navarre
> I built a set of boxes with W2K running MS DNS that was to do DNS
> for 29,000
> domains. After the boxes got to a few million queries per month they just
> began to choke. This was May of 2000. I rebuilt using RedHat 6.2 or 7,
> whatever was available at that time, and BIND 8.x, and the traffic shot up
> to 8 million queries per month. Now I use RedHat 7.1, and the firewall
> built into the 2.4 kernel, with BIND 9.x without a single issue.
> The boxes
> only take 1 minute to restore if the machine is already a standby, if not,
> it takes 15 - 20 minutes to restore the DNS servers from scratch, which
> handle 29,000 plus domains.
>
> My recommendation, stay away from anything running DNS on a W2K server if
> you ever plan to grow. It is much easier to restore, and at least 45
> minutes or more faster to restore a RedHat 7.1 server, than it is
> to restore
> a W2K server. Gotta go with what works, and scales.
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