BIND Requirements

[Mark Douglas]

Hi,

I'm looking at setting up a BIND server for one of the local ISP's, who
currently has their DNS hosted by another company. I've setup BIND on my own
network, and worked with domains and whatnot, but I have never thought about
the actual hardware requirements behind a production DNS server. I've looked
at the faq and the mailing list archive, and people have talked about RAM
requirements, and bandwidth usage. However, I haven't seen much about CPU
usage, nor disk space requirements. So, what kind of CPU time does BIND
require on a small domain (local ISP with only 700 users, not many records)?
Are disk space requirements based solely on installation size and zone file
sizes? I hope these questions aren't too easy, but my DNS & Bind book hasn't
come in yet, and I need to get started on this. :/

Thanks in advance,

Mark

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