[126199] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: DNS performance...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Geoffrey Sisson)
Wed May 5 14:28:02 2010
Date: Wed, 05 May 2010 11:27:37 -0700
From: "Geoffrey Sisson" <geoff@geoff.co.uk>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <w2m88ac5c711005050748p3734bb02hb8022b0c1cde201@mail.gmail.com>
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richard.barnes@gmail.com (Richard Barnes) wrote:
> OARC did a performance study of a few name servers in the context of
> root zone scaling, but it should be generalizable:
> <http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-59/presentations/wessels-root-zone.pdf>
Note this study compares BIND and NSD only, and under a very specific set
of conditions only, namely, serving a single large zone.
Geoff (co-author of the study)
> On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 4:41 PM, Donald Eastlake <d3e3e3@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > There are a large number of DNS servers available. See for example
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_DNS_server_software
> >
> > Does anyone know of good performance comparisons, especially for high
> > end applications with lots of data/zones and/or high query/update
> > rates?> From nanog@nanog.org
> From: nanog@nanog.org
> Subject: Re: DNS performance...
> Date: 5 May 10 14:48:12 GMT
>
> OARC did a performance study of a few name servers in the context of
> root zone scaling, but it should be generalizable:
> <http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-59/presentations/wessels-root-zone.pdf>
>
> On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 4:41 PM, Donald Eastlake <d3e3e3@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > There are a large number of DNS servers available. See for example
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_DNS_server_software
> >
> > Does anyone know of good performance comparisons, especially for high
> > end applications with lots of data/zones and/or high query/update
> > rates?
