dns server sizing?

[Jim Reid]

>>>>> "David" == David Mitchell <davem at fdgroup.co.uk> writes:

    >> I'm not too fond of Solaris as a name server platform because
    >> of all the nsswitch.conf, DOORS, nscd, nis, nis+, etc cruft
    >> that gets in the way of quick name/address lookups.

    David> That cruft only affects solaris clients, and has no impact
    David> on on a Solaris machine acting as a name server.

True: up to a point. But what if those clients are things like dig or
nslookup or even named-xfer? And how do you know where or what is
giving them an answer to a host lookup? I suppose someone could
by-pass all that Solaris cruft by statically linking the name server
software with libbind.a - no more nsswitch.conf - but why bother with
that hassle in the first place?