BIND9 Performance...

[Brad Diggs]

What is the best performance (requests per second)
that anyone has been able to squeeze out of BIND 9.x
on a single server (single or multiple processor)?
This could include any subversion of 9.

I have done a significant number of BIND benchmarks 
over the last two weeks on several servers.  The best 
performance that I have achieved on BIND 9 thus far 
was 5,211 requests per second with an average of 
5,197 requests per second on a four 450MHz processor 
Sun Enterprise 420.

Nicolai Langfeldt states in his book "The Conscise Guide
to DNS and BIND" that 15,000-2000 lookups per second 
have been reported in the July 2000 bind users mailing
list.  However, I have been unable to find this info.

Can someone provide the subject of that thread so that
I can find it and does anyone know the server 
configuration that those numbers were created on?

Thanks in advance,
Brad Diggs

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