Re: 50 million records under one domain using Bind

2008-12-18 Thread Vinay Y S
I believe he is talking on one server not spread out over several servers. I think he is trying to see the limit on one server as to how many records it could serve reliably. Can the records of a single domain be spread across multiple machines (sharding?) using bind? I believe that the

Re: 50 million records under one domain using Bind

2008-12-18 Thread Vinay Y S
If you plan to use a plain zone file for the 50 million records, rather than using a separate backend database, you may want to What are the backend database options available? Is bind-sdb active developed and is it production ready? precompile your zone file by named-compilezone. It will

Re: 50 million records under one domain using Bind

2008-12-18 Thread JINMEI Tatuya / 神明達哉
At Thu, 18 Dec 2008 22:01:37 +0530, Vinay Y S vi...@vys.in wrote: If you plan to use a plain zone file for the 50 million records, rather than using a separate backend database, you may want to What are the backend database options available? Is bind-sdb active developed and is it

Re: 50 million records under one domain using Bind

2008-12-15 Thread JINMEI Tatuya / 神明達哉
At Sat, 13 Dec 2008 17:09:57 +0530, Vinay Y S vi...@vys.in wrote: I am studying the scalability and performance characteristics of different DNS servers. Goal is to find the best suitable server to host a single domain with 50 million records. I am planning to install Fedora 10 x86_64 on a

Re: 50 million records under one domain using Bind

2008-12-14 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 13.12.08 23:12, Vinay Y S wrote: The record names and values could be any valid labels. All the record names I plan to use for tests are of form sub.domain.tld and values are IP addresses for A record and other suitable values for other record types. Would the nature of record types and

Re: 50 million records under one domain using Bind

2008-12-14 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 05:09:57PM +0530, Vinay Y S vi...@vys.in wrote a message of 23 lines which said: Also, is there any known deployments of bind of this scale out there? Half of the .de name servers are BIND and .de has 12 millions of domains, which probably means close to 50 millions

Re: 50 million records under one domain using Bind

2008-12-14 Thread Robert
On Sun, 14 Dec 2008 14:06:05 +0100, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 05:09:57PM +0530, Vinay Y S vi...@vys.in wrote a message of 23 lines which said: Also, is there any known deployments of bind of this scale out there? Half of the .de name servers are BIND and .de

Re: 50 million records under one domain using Bind

2008-12-14 Thread Gregory Hicks
From: Robert no...@noplace.nowhere Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2008 13:01:16 -0500 On Sun, 14 Dec 2008 14:06:05 +0100, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 05:09:57PM +0530, Vinay Y S vi...@vys.in wrote a message of 23 lines which said: Also, is there any known

50 million records under one domain using Bind

2008-12-13 Thread Vinay Y S
Hi, I am studying the scalability and performance characteristics of different DNS servers. Goal is to find the best suitable server to host a single domain with 50 million records. I am planning to install Fedora 10 x86_64 on a 32GB RAM machine and use the Bind that comes with it for this

Re: 50 million records under one domain using Bind

2008-12-13 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 13.12.08 17:09, Vinay Y S wrote: I am studying the scalability and performance characteristics of different DNS servers. Goal is to find the best suitable server to host a single domain with 50 million records. I am planning to install Fedora 10 x86_64 on a 32GB RAM machine and use the Bind

Re: 50 million records under one domain using Bind

2008-12-13 Thread Vinay Y S
2008/12/13 Matus UHLAR - fantomas uh...@fantomas.sk: On 13.12.08 17:09, Vinay Y S wrote: I am studying the scalability and performance characteristics of different DNS servers. Goal is to find the best suitable server to host a single domain with 50 million records. I am planning to install

Re: 50 million records under one domain using Bind

2008-12-13 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 13.12.08 17:09, Vinay Y S wrote: I am studying the scalability and performance characteristics of different DNS servers. Goal is to find the best suitable server to host a single domain with 50 million records. I am planning to install Fedora 10 x86_64 on a 32GB RAM machine and use

Re: 50 million records under one domain using Bind

2008-12-13 Thread Vinay Y S
2008/12/13 Matus UHLAR - fantomas uh...@fantomas.sk: On 13.12.08 17:09, Vinay Y S wrote: I am studying the scalability and performance characteristics of different DNS servers. Goal is to find the best suitable server to host a single domain with 50 million records. I am planning to