max sessions?

Nate Duehr nate at natetech.com
Thu Apr 12 08:44:46 UTC 2001


On Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 04:50:56PM +1000, Mark.Andrews at nominum.com wrote:
> 
> > Does anyone know how many sessions can bind8 handle at the same time?
> 
> 	Nameservers arn't, for the most part, session based.  Most of
> 	the traffic is UDP.  That being said most nameservers can
> 	hundreds if not thousands of simultanious TCP connections.
> 
> 	The limit is the underlying OS.

And/or the firewall the DNS server lives behind, as I found out
recently.  :(

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