Hardware

[Bill Larson]

You have already had some other responses, all saying "it depends".

My answer would be to try it out.  As long as you are not running a
busy server (lots of domains, LOTS of queries, etc.) it should work
well.  I have run DNS servers on smaller systems, but this was extremely
old version of BIND, nothing at all current.  I would expect that the
new versions of BIND require more memory.

Try it out!  The worst that will happen is that it won't work well.
If it does work, great.  You shouldn't have had to invest much into
the system.  

If you try this, don't run ANYTHING else on the same system.  Don't
run sendmail, don't use X, etc.  Dedicate this system to only DNS.

Bill Larson (wllarso at swcp.com)

Benjamin John wrote:
> 
> Is a 486 DX/2 66 with 16 Megs of ram enough for a DNS server ? DNS is
> the only thing being done on this machine and it is serving 3 domains.
> 
> Thanks