BIND 9 vs BIND 8 speed

[Saad Kadhi]

On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 05:22:52PM -0400, Kevin Darcy wrote:
> 
> Saad Kadhi wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, Sep 28, 2002 at 10:02:02PM +1000, TuxPenguin4You wrote:
> > > Are there any speed improvments in BIND 9?
> > It is quite well known that BIND 8 is faster than BIND 9. But I don't think a
> > non ISP-class nameserver that loads zillions of domains will see any real
> > difference between the two.
> 
> Such an "ISP-class" nameserver would probably be better off with BIND 9, since
> a) BIND 8 tends to go "deaf" when loading a lot of zone data, b) such a
> nameserver is likely to have multiple processors and BIND 9 can make better use
> of this.
so apart from features that are not yet implemented in BIND 9 (such as
rrset-order...at least in 9.2.1), why would one use BIND 8 ?

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