DNS performance testing - FreeBSD & Solaris - BIND & djbdns
Brad Knowles
brad.knowles at skynet.be
Thu Jun 21 23:36:53 UTC 2001
At 7:25 PM -0400 6/21/01, Kevin Darcy wrote:
> Wait, you're comparing BIND's *forwarding* performance to its performance
> serving data from authoritative zones? That's apples and oranges. You should
> measure those separately.
That's why the tests are run multiple times -- the first time
measures the forwarding performance, the second and third times
measure the caching performance.
That said, I still think that using forwarding is a bad way to
test this issue.
--
Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles at skynet.be>
/* efdtt.c Author: Charles M. Hannum <root at ihack.net> */
/* Represented as 1045 digit prime number by Phil Carmody */
/* Prime as DNS cname chain by Roy Arends and Walter Belgers */
/* */
/* Usage is: cat title-key scrambled.vob | efdtt >clear.vob */
/* where title-key = "153 2 8 105 225" or other similar 5-byte key */
dig decss.friet.org|perl -ne'if(/^x/){s/[x.]//g;print pack(H124,$_)}'
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