How to collect bind application statistics and how does DNS servers scale?

[Dennis K]

Welp,
Mr. Campin has drafter a bunch of scripts to do exacly that,
http://www.campin.net
using Tobias' RRDTool.


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From: "Elias" <elias at tmnet.com.my>
To: <comp-protocols-dns-bind at isc.org>
Sent: Monday, November 11, 2002 11:54 PM
Subject: How to collect bind application statistics and how does DNS servers
scale?


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> Hi guys,
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> I've got a couple of questions for you gurus out there. Hope you can help
me out.....
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> 1. How do I collect statistics for my DNS server? What are you guys using
to do this? I've got all the system stats running, but I need something
that'll graph all the info about how many DNS queries I'm getting, the type
of queries, etc.
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> 2. How do you normally scale a DNS server? How do I scale my servers if I
have 10,000 customers, 100k, 1 million and so on? Anybody have any ideas on
BIND's performance on certain hardware platforms, eg : how many requests per
second can a err.....SUN Ultra 2 with 512MB memory handle? PIII 1.2 Ghz with
512MB?
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> Thanks!
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> - Elias -
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