From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 25 09:27:37 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D227C37B401 for ; Fri, 25 Jul 2003 09:27:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.zoper.com (216.93.178.62.beta.zettai.net [216.93.178.62]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3CA1043F75 for ; Fri, 25 Jul 2003 09:27:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from list@zettai.net) Received: (qmail 42590 invoked by uid 7794); 25 Jul 2003 16:27:23 -0000 Received: from list@zettai.net by mail.zoper.com by uid 89 with qmail-scanner-1.16 (clamscan: 20030522. spamassassin: 2.55. Clear:SA:0(-6.4/5.0):. Processed in 1.153221 secs); 25 Jul 2003 16:27:23 -0000 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-6.4 required=5.0 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.0.2?) (list@zettai.net@200.71.46.27) by 0 with SMTP; 25 Jul 2003 16:27:22 -0000 User-Agent: Microsoft-Outlook-Express-Macintosh-Edition/5.0.6 Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2003 11:27:33 -0500 From: george donnelly To: Dragoncrest , Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <5.2.0.9.2.20030725010306.022e81b0@pop.voyager.net> Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Bandwidth needed for DNS server? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2003 16:27:38 -0000 [Dragoncrest wrote (dragoncrest@voyager.net) on 7/25/03 12:06 AM] > Hi again all. Looking to go into the next stage of our move to Linux by > implementing an internal authoritative DNS server. why not move to FreeBSD instead? you're already posting to the freebsd-questions list. ;) (yes FreeBSD is not linux) > I only expect to hold > zones for 4 different domains on it for now, so I'm not expecting much from > it, but I'm curious how much bandwidth usage to plan for. very minor I would say, tho of course it depends on the traffic to those domains and other factors, but very small, like in the 1GB and less range for the dns stuff. > Right now our > ISP does all our DNS, but I'd like to take it in house if possible so we > have direct control over it. If all our TTL's are set to 24 hours, what > could I expect to see as far as an increase in bandwidth usage by doing > this? I'd like to be able to plan how and where I'm going to implement > this so as to have the least impact on our network. and don't forget not to use Bind. try tinydns or another small, fast, easy-to-administer and secure dns server. <--> george donnelly ~ http://www.zettai.net/ ~ "Quality Zope Hosting" Shared and Dedicated Zope Hosting ~ Zope Servers ~ Zope Websites Yahoo, AIM: zettainet ~ MSN: zettainet@hotmail.com ~ ICQ: 51907738