Re: DNS server performance
Bill Manning <bmanning@ISI.EDU> Thu, 28 October 1999 21:20 UTC
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From: Bill Manning <bmanning@ISI.EDU>
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Subject: Re: DNS server performance
To: schulzrinne@CS.COLUMBIA.EDU
Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1999 14:13:57 -0700
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In-Reply-To: <3818A67D.2FB6114E@cs.columbia.edu> from "Henning Schulzrinne" at Oct 28, 99 03:39:41 pm
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> > What kind of query rates can a good DNS server sustain these days? Any > order-of-magnitude design values or something specific such as "a Sega > Dreamcast running SegaOS and bind 8.7 can sustain a rate of 100 > 'standard' queries a second" would be very helpful. > -- > Henning Schulzrinne http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~hgs > Here is a snippet from another discussion that occured last week. The context is a server that hosts the popular gtlds. "...sees on average 2500 queries per second with peaks of around 5000 queries per second." This is on current Sparc HW (a 450 as I remember) and bind 8.1.2. --bill
- DNS server performance Henning Schulzrinne
- Re: DNS server performance Bill Manning