Speed of BIND vs. W2k DNS

Danny Mayer mayer at gis.net
Thu Dec 21 02:03:12 UTC 2000


		You really are comparing apples and oranges, since W2K doesn't have
  the things that BIND 9 does.  Try comparing against a BIND 8.2.3 server.

			Danny

At 01:50 PM 12/20/00 , Jozef Skvarcek wrote:
>
>Hi,
>
>I am testing BIND v9.1.0b1 (SPARC, 450MHz) and W2k DNS (PIII 500MHz).
>The W2k seems to be 50% faster currently. I am doing the tests on
>isulated network, the objective is to find out the right platfrom
>especially for the round-robin answers. Does someone know how to
>tune up BIND to catch up with W2k DNS? 
>
>Also, I noticed that the round-robin answers from the BIND are generated
>by random, i.e. the first values are not consecutive. 
>Is there any way to make it that way?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Jozef
> 



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