how many query support bind 9.2.4

Alberto L Garcia bertoga at hotmail.com
Tue Sep 7 15:56:37 UTC 2004


The two DNS  are caching server and authoritative server.
The version 9.2.4 don't have bug. because the server is in internet.

Alberto


"Ladislav Vobr" <lvobr at ies.etisalat.ae> wrote in message 
news:cgp7dj$1avr$1 at sf1.isc.org...
> Alberto L Garcia wrote:
>> we have 2  DNS bind 9.2.4rc4 in Solaris 9 and received 6382291 for hours 
>> for
>> server, and server in very slow for resolver name and update zone. Each
>> server have 2 processor(used 60%) and 2 GB memory . The bind 9 support 
>> all
>> this query for hours?
>
> do you mean 6382291 per hour, which is around 1772 per second. Is it
> caching server or authoritative only or both? If it is both you should
> really split it into two, performance will be better, security wise it
> is better and availability too. Also I hope you didn't keep the default
> 1000 for recursive-clients queue if you have so much recursive traffic,
> put at least 2 or 3 times more, if you can afford it. You should run
> some log analyzers scripts to check your traffic regularly, because bind
> doesn't help you much with reporting unreachable servers, or possible
> flooders, you have to help it yourself. Both of them (unreachable
> servers, flooders) having serious impact on a recursive server, when
> handling so many requests. You will be surprised how many weird and
> useless traffic you might be receiving.
>
> ps. why you run 9.2.4rc4 i guess 9.2.3 might be better choice for you.
>
> Ladislav
>
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