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