That was MS DNS, and it was per month. Those were the queries that were
getting recorded. We found between 60 to 80% of the queries never completed
once we switch to BIND under Linux. What you don't know can hurt you.
----- Original Message -----
From: "R. Scott Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2001 5:32 AM
Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] hotmail.com & yahoo.com
>
> >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.
>
> They could only handle a few million queries per MONTH? 5,000,000 queries
> a month is only about 160,000 queries a day. IMail can easily send out
> many more E-mails than that, and sending an E-mail is a *lot* more work
> than a DNS lookup.
>
> Are you sure that wasn't per day?
>
> -Scott
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