[2268] in linux-net channel archive
Re: NameD and Telnet
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeff Fisher)
Wed Mar 27 21:23:45 1996
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 1996 12:03:21 -0600 (CST)
From: Jeff Fisher <Jeff_Fisher@kcrg.com>
To: "James G. Stallings II -- NetAdmin" <zap@kraken.port-aransas.k12.tx.us>
cc: ATPlack@scj.com, linux-admin@vger.rutgers.edu, linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.91.960325224547.20418D-100000@kraken.port-aransas.k12.tx.us>
On Mon, 25 Mar 1996, James G. Stallings II -- NetAdmin wrote:
> Date: Mon, 25 Mar 1996 23:01:57 +0600 (GMT+0600)
> From: James G. Stallings II -- NetAdmin <zap@kraken.port-aransas.k12.tx.us>
> To: ATPlack@scj.com
> Cc: linux-admin@vger.rutgers.edu, linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
> Subject: Re: NameD and Telnet
>
>
> We have a flat class C network tied to a 56K leased line via a Cisco 2501
> Router. We run named on a 486DX100 (local bus/bus mastering fast SCSI II);
> it has 32 MB of RAM and 2GB HD. The disk is reasonably fast (its a
> Seagate Baracuda II). When we were running this machine as a dedicated
> nameserver (i.e. no user accounts, no extraneous processes), it ran the
> DNS so slowly that we were completely unable to connect until after
> several requests for nameservice had be made. Lynx would only work on
> any given "new" link after attempting to activate the link several
> times. Once the address was successfully acquired, it would remain
> cached and access to that site would become routinely quick.
>
> I do think it interesting to observe the difference that the Sun netra
> makes, and to wonder if there is something incredibly "less than optimum"
> about the port of "named" for linux.
>
I've been running bind 4.9.3.beta9 from the slackware 2.3 distribution for
about a year now (with and without an internet connection via modem). For
the local names, it has no problem resolving them right away. The
nameserver (a 486-DX33 with 8 meg of RAM and most daemons running)
typically takes less than 1-2 seconds to resolve a local name. Plenty fast
for my purposes.
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Jeff Fisher Gazette MIS
jeff@kcrg.com Cedar Rapids, IA, US
"Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it
flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come."
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