DNS performance testing - FreeBSD & Solaris - BIND & djbdns

[Kevin Darcy]

Matt Simerson wrote:

> 1. Caching performance.
>
> [...]
>
> A dnswall has been set up on 216.122.69.110. The program is named walldns
> and is capable of answering over 6,000 dns requests per second. This is well
> beyond the limits of all the dns servers and caches that we are testing.
> Each caching name server (dnscache, BIND 8, BIND 9) will be configured to
> forward all requests to the dnswall. [...]
>
> 2. Query performance.
>
> For BIND, cache performance is the same is query performance because BIND
> reads all the zone files in at start time and serves them from it's cache.

Wait, you're comparing BIND's *forwarding* performance to its performance
serving data from authoritative zones? That's apples and oranges. You should
measure those separately.


- Kevin