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From: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@futuresouth.com>
To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
cc: Kris Kirby <kirbykb@airnet.net>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Good nameserver system?
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On Wed, 8 Oct 1997, Greg Lehey wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 07, 1997 at 10:36:22PM -0400, Kris Kirby 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.
> 
> Are you planning to run a name server for a large network provider,
> including a large number of secondary servers?  Then you might be on
> the right lines.  I've always found that an old 386 with 8 MB of
> memory does a pretty good job.  My name server, the primary for my
> domain, uses about 1 MB of data.  In the last two days, it has used 22
> seconds of CPU time on a P5/133.
> 
> Greg
> 

I'd have to agree.  I'm thinking about setting up an in-house network with
a 56k or cable modem connection, and I have a 386/40, soon-to-be 16 meg
RAM, a 100 and a 40 meg hard drive, that's just screaming to become a
nameserver.  Probably a print server too, but...
named just doesn't take up all that much; unless you're the ml.org
nameserver or something..  ;)

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