best nameserver server-confirguration

[Danny Mayer]

		I doubt that you'd have much of a problem with this kind of system, unless
  you are planning on huge zones or huge numbers of users.  named will read in
  all the zone information at startup time and keep it there.  In addition,
it will
  remember responses (for a certain length of time) also in memory.  Only
if you
  start to run out of memory will it really start to swap.  If you're
really a small
  ISP then that's probably not going to happen and can always buy additional
  memory.  named is not disk intensive.

		If you intend to run Windows NT or Win2K you should grab the latest kits
  that I made available at:


http://bind8nt.meiway.com/

  and go to the downloads page.  The 8.2.3-T6B kits for NT are near the
bottom.
  I don't recommend the 8.2.2-P5 because of bugs listed in the bugs section of
  this site.

				Danny

At 03:41 PM 10/27/00 +0200, cansas wrote:
>Hello
>I'm planing to setup BIND for doing my DNS. We are a small ISP-company who
>has some expericence with DNS Manager for Windows NT4.
>
>We now need two servers for doing the primary and secondary DNS for our
>hosted domains.
>
>We was just offered two almost new servers from a business who bankrupt, but
>both servers has IDE harddrives. We have always tried to avoide IDE
>harddrives because of the slower speed vs. SCSI harddrives. But when it's
>not an actually webserver, does it make a difference which kind of harddrive
>the server has?
>
>Here's some of the specifications for the two servers:
>10 GB IDE harddrive
>256 MB RAM
>AMD K6 II 500 mhz
>
>Hope some one can give us a hint to make the right decision.
>
>Thanks...
>
>/ Lars
>