Date: Tue, 07 Oct 1997 08:20:03 -0400 From: Joshua Fielden <shaggy@houseofduck.ml.org> To: Shawn Ramsey <shawn@luke.cpl.net> Cc: Kris Kirby <kirbykb@airnet.net>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Good nameserver system? Message-ID: <343A28F3.ECFD5F1A@houseofduck.ml.org> References: <Pine.BSF.3.95.971007220512.1317A-100000@luke.cpl.net>
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Shawn Ramsey wrote: > > > What would be a good system for making a nameserver? I'm guessing P-200 or > > better and PPro-200. This would be a FreeBSD system, running named or a > > faster nameserver. And a 500M-2GB disk cache. > > A P133 with 64MB on RAM should be able to handle just about any namesever > you could throw at it. Nameserving is not at all CPU intensive. Currently, the New York office here at GeoCities is using a P120 laptop with 16 megs of RAM for DNS/ftp/www, and working just fine. :-) -- This is a test of the Emergency Broadcast System. If this had been an actual life-threatening emergency, we would have fled in terror, and you would not have been informed. -- Joshua Fielden, Systems Administrator, GeoCities http://www.geocities.com jfielden@geocities.com I do not speak for my company, all opinions enclosed in this e-mail are purely my own.
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