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Name Server Configuration"> -</head> -<body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"> -<div class="navheader"> -<table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"> -<tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Chapter 2. <span class="acronym">BIND</span> Resource Requirements</th></tr> -<tr> -<td width="20%" align="left"> -<a accesskey="p" href="Bv9ARM.ch01.html">Prev</a> </td> -<th width="60%" align="center"> </th> -<td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Bv9ARM.ch03.html">Next</a> -</td> -</tr> -</table> -<hr> -</div> -<div class="chapter" lang="en"> -<div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title"> -<a name="Bv9ARM.ch02"></a>Chapter 2. <span class="acronym">BIND</span> Resource Requirements</h2></div></div></div> -<div class="toc"> -<p><b>Table of Contents</b></p> -<dl> -<dt><span class="sect1"><a href="Bv9ARM.ch02.html#id2547108">Hardware requirements</a></span></dt> -<dt><span class="sect1"><a href="Bv9ARM.ch02.html#id2547132">CPU Requirements</a></span></dt> -<dt><span class="sect1"><a href="Bv9ARM.ch02.html#id2547143">Memory Requirements</a></span></dt> -<dt><span class="sect1"><a href="Bv9ARM.ch02.html#id2547158">Name Server Intensive Environment Issues</a></span></dt> -<dt><span class="sect1"><a href="Bv9ARM.ch02.html#id2547303">Supported Operating Systems</a></span></dt> -</dl> -</div> -<div class="sect1" lang="en"> -<div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"> -<a name="id2547108"></a>Hardware requirements</h2></div></div></div> -<p><span class="acronym">DNS</span> hardware requirements have traditionally been quite modest. -For many installations, servers that have been pensioned off from -active duty have performed admirably as <span class="acronym">DNS</span> servers.</p> -<p>The DNSSEC and IPv6 features of <span class="acronym">BIND</span> 9 may prove to be quite -CPU intensive however, so organizations that make heavy use of these -features may wish to consider larger systems for these applications. -<span class="acronym">BIND</span> 9 is fully multithreaded, allowing full utilization of -multiprocessor systems for installations that need it.</p> -</div> -<div class="sect1" lang="en"> -<div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"> -<a name="id2547132"></a>CPU Requirements</h2></div></div></div> -<p>CPU requirements for <span class="acronym">BIND</span> 9 range from i486-class machines -for serving of static zones without caching, to enterprise-class -machines if you intend to process many dynamic updates and DNSSEC -signed zones, serving many thousands of queries per second.</p> -</div> -<div class="sect1" lang="en"> -<div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"> -<a name="id2547143"></a>Memory Requirements</h2></div></div></div> -<p>The memory of the server has to be large enough to fit the -cache and zones loaded off disk. The <span><strong class="command">max-cache-size</strong></span> -option can be used to limit the amount of memory used by the cache, -at the expense of reducing cache hit rates and causing more <span class="acronym">DNS</span> -traffic. It is still good practice to have enough memory to load -all zone and cache data into memory — unfortunately, the best way -to determine this for a given installation is to watch the name server -in operation. After a few weeks the server process should reach -a relatively stable size where entries are expiring from the cache as -fast as they are being inserted.</p> -</div> -<div class="sect1" lang="en"> -<div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"> -<a name="id2547158"></a>Name Server Intensive Environment Issues</h2></div></div></div> -<p>For name server intensive environments, there are two alternative -configurations that may be used. The first is where clients and -any second-level internal name servers query a main name server, which -has enough memory to build a large cache. This approach minimizes -the bandwidth used by external name lookups. The second alternative -is to set up second-level internal name servers to make queries independently. -In this configuration, none of the individual machines needs to -have as much memory or CPU power as in the first alternative, but -this has the disadvantage of making many more external queries, -as none of the name servers share their cached data.</p> -</div> -<div class="sect1" lang="en"> -<div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"> -<a name="id2547303"></a>Supported Operating Systems</h2></div></div></div> -<p>ISC <span class="acronym">BIND</span> 9 compiles and runs on a large number -of Unix-like operating system and on Windows NT / 2000. For an up-to-date -list of supported systems, see the README file in the top level directory -of the BIND 9 source distribution.</p> -</div> -</div> -<div class="navfooter"> -<hr> -<table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"> -<tr> -<td width="40%" align="left"> -<a accesskey="p" href="Bv9ARM.ch01.html">Prev</a> </td> -<td width="20%" align="center"> </td> -<td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Bv9ARM.ch03.html">Next</a> -</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Chapter 1. Introduction </td> -<td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="Bv9ARM.html">Home</a></td> -<td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Chapter 3. Name Server Configuration</td> -</tr> -</table> -</div> -</body> -</html> |