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83N/A <
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83N/A traditionally been quite modest.
83N/A For many installations, servers that have been pensioned off from
2N/A active duty have performed admirably as <
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92N/A The DNSSEC features of <
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34N/A CPU requirements for <
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2N/A for serving of static zones without caching, to enterprise-class
2N/A machines if you intend to process many dynamic updates and DNSSEC
2N/A signed zones, serving many thousands of queries per second.
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70N/A The memory of the server has to be large enough to fit the
70N/A cache and zones loaded off disk. The <
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70N/A Additionally, if additional section caching
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6N/A of memory used by the mechanism.
6N/A It is still good practice to have enough memory to load
6N/A all zone and cache data into memory — unfortunately, the best
34N/A to determine this for a given installation is to watch the name server
34N/A in operation. After a few weeks the server process should reach
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92N/A For name server intensive environments, there are two alternative
92N/A configurations that may be used. The first is where clients and
92N/A any second-level internal name servers query a main name server, which
92N/A has enough memory to build a large cache. This approach minimizes
92N/A the bandwidth used by external name lookups. The second alternative
92N/A is to set up second-level internal name servers to make queries
34N/A In this configuration, none of the individual machines needs to
38N/A have as much memory or CPU power as in the first alternative, but
34N/A this has the disadvantage of making many more external queries,
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of Unix-like operating systems and on
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 and 2008, and Windows XP and Vista.
list of supported systems, see the README file in the top level
of the BIND 9 source distribution.
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