Any Thoughts on using a Windows DNS server for Public facing versus a DNS Appliance?

[Jeff Lightner]

I second the recommendation for Linux or BSD though I'd likely go with
RedHat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 if vendor support was important to me
or with CentOS Linux if it weren't.   

Slackware takes a little more time for a newbie to get up to speed on.

-----Original Message-----
From: bind-users-bounce at isc.org [mailto:bind-users-bounce at isc.org] On
Behalf Of Res
Sent: Saturday, August 02, 2008 6:21 PM
To: sekoon06 at gmail.com
Cc: comp-protocols-dns-bind at isc.org
Subject: Re: Any Thoughts on using a Windows DNS server for Public
facing versus a DNS Appliance?

On Sat, 2 Aug 2008, sekoon06 at gmail.com wrote:

> We are having a debate as to whether we should deploy Windows DNS
> servers
> for public facing request versus using a DNS Appliance solution. We

Save yourself a lot of money and install, Slackware Linux or
Free/OpenBSD,
for that few domains you could use a low end desktop PC with 64megs RAM
if
you needed to, although with that little memory I'd use Slackware and
not 
BSD :)

However, for hardware reliability, I'd get low end single CPU Dell or 
HP 1RU servers, DNS is all about memory, so you only need say 2 small
scsi 
disks in Raid 1 with at least 1G memory, try for 2G if you can get it
cheap.
That solution would allow you to grow into several thousands of domains.

The money you save in not paying for m$ OS license or special device,
will 
allow you to buy better hardware, and with the left over cash, a couple
of 
nights out on the town with dinner for 2, and taxi fares to and from..

-- 
Cheers
Res
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