DNS performance testing - FreeBSD & Solaris - BIND & djbdns

[Kevin Darcy]

Kevin Darcy wrote:

> Matt Simerson wrote:
>
> > 1. Caching performance.
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > A dnswall has been set up on 216.122.69.110. The program is named walldns
> > and is capable of answering over 6,000 dns requests per second. This is well
> > beyond the limits of all the dns servers and caches that we are testing.
> > Each caching name server (dnscache, BIND 8, BIND 9) will be configured to
> > forward all requests to the dnswall. [...]
> >
> > 2. Query performance.
> >
> > For BIND, cache performance is the same is query performance because BIND
> > reads all the zone files in at start time and serves them from it's cache.
>
> Wait, you're comparing BIND's *forwarding* performance to its performance
> serving data from authoritative zones?

s/comparing/equating/


- Kevin