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1448N/A <
span class="acronym">DNS</
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1448N/A traditionally been quite modest.
1448N/A For many installations, servers that have been pensioned off from
1448N/A active duty have performed admirably as <
span class="acronym">DNS</
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1448N/A The DNSSEC and IPv6 features of <
span class="acronym">BIND</
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1448N/A CPU intensive however, so organizations that make heavy use of these
1448N/A features may wish to consider larger systems for these applications.
1448N/A <
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1448N/A multiprocessor systems for installations that need it.
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1448N/A CPU requirements for <
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1448N/A for serving of static zones without caching, to enterprise-class
1448N/A machines if you intend to process many dynamic updates and DNSSEC
1448N/A signed zones, serving many thousands of queries per second.
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1448N/A The memory of the server has to be large enough to fit the
1448N/A cache and zones loaded off disk. The <
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1448N/A option can be used to limit the amount of memory used by the cache,
1448N/A at the expense of reducing cache hit rates and causing more <
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1448N/A Additionally, if additional section caching
1448N/A (<
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1448N/A the <
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1448N/A of memory used by the mechanism.
1448N/A It is still good practice to have enough memory to load
1448N/A all zone and cache data into memory — unfortunately, the best
1448N/A to determine this for a given installation is to watch the name server
1448N/A in operation. After a few weeks the server process should reach
1448N/A a relatively stable size where entries are expiring from the cache as
1448N/A fast as they are being inserted.
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1448N/A For name server intensive environments, there are two alternative
1448N/A configurations that may be used. The first is where clients and
1448N/A any second-level internal name servers query a main name server, which
1448N/A has enough memory to build a large cache. This approach minimizes
1448N/A the bandwidth used by external name lookups. The second alternative
1448N/A is to set up second-level internal name servers to make queries
1448N/A In this configuration, none of the individual machines needs to
1448N/A have as much memory or CPU power as in the first alternative, but
1448N/A this has the disadvantage of making many more external queries,
1448N/A as none of the name servers share their cached data.
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1448N/A ISC <
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1448N/A of Unix-like operating system and on Windows NT / 2000. For an
1448N/A list of supported systems, see the README file in the top level
1448N/A of the BIND 9 source distribution.
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