Optimize BindBIND 9.1.0 for greater "throughput"??

Nate Campi nate at wired.com
Tue Feb 5 22:33:18 UTC 2002


On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 09:59:24PM +0000, phat_phoque at salmahayeksknockers.edu wrote:
> Nate Campi <nate at wired.com> wrote:
> 
> > BIND 9, on the other hand, performs very poorly as a resolver. I've
> > tested it on Solaris and Linux, threaded and not threaded, sun compiler
> > and gcc, sparc and intel on Solaris - and BIND 9 never does well. I
> > usually get around 150 queries/sec for resolution in tests (sometimes 
> > much, much worse).
> 
> Interesting.  Any quick fixes I can implement to immediately increase my
> queries/sec?  

My bad, I guess I didn't come right out and say it: 

Install BIND 8 or dnscache.
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