Re: [Dnsmasq-discuss] dnsmasq performance as dns forwarder in larger environments

2012-07-16 Thread Jan-Piet Mens
> My idea was to use something > more lightweight than bind, since from a featureset point of view, bind > would be really way too big for our purpose, since we basically need > forwarding servers only. Have you looked at Unbound (unbound.net) ? -JP __

Re: [Dnsmasq-discuss] dnsmasq performance as dns forwarder in larger environments

2012-07-16 Thread Thorsten Peter
Hey Simon, thanks for your quick reply. This doesn't sound as many people would use dnsmasq in larger environments, does it? I don't think we can really afford to play around with this too much. My idea was to use something more lightweight than bind, since from a featureset point of view, bind wo

Re: [Dnsmasq-discuss] dnsmasq performance as dns forwarder in larger environments

2012-07-16 Thread Simon Kelley
On 16/07/12 17:32, Thorsten Peter wrote: Hey folks, we are planning to test dnsmasq as a dns forwarder only, no dhcp and no caching involved. Caching might play a role later though. We are talking a internal, private network consiting of ~ 200 servers (Apache/JBoss mainly). Plan would be to use

[Dnsmasq-discuss] dnsmasq performance as dns forwarder in larger environments

2012-07-16 Thread Thorsten Peter
Hey folks, we are planning to test dnsmasq as a dns forwarder only, no dhcp and no caching involved. Caching might play a role later though. We are talking a internal, private network consiting of ~ 200 servers (Apache/JBoss mainly). Plan would be to use 4 servers as dnsmasq forwarders, to our ups