Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2003 11:27:33 -0500 From: george donnelly <list@zettai.net> To: Dragoncrest <dragoncrest@voyager.net>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Bandwidth needed for DNS server? Message-ID: <BB46C4A5.39815%list@zettai.net> In-Reply-To: <5.2.0.9.2.20030725010306.022e81b0@pop.voyager.net>
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[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
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