In article <mailman.537.1253337654.14796.bind-us...@lists.isc.org>, Kaya Saman <samank...@netscape.net> wrote:
> > > > In private email, he told me he has 59 forward and reverse records in > > the internal view, and 22 of each in the external view. > > > > This is nothing. A 10-year-old Pentium should be able to handle this > > without breaking a sweat. > > > > > Thanks Barry, as I did mention in the beginning it is a home lab setup > for me to learn about network services and infrastructure a little so > that when I do get to industry I understand the basics and at least have > junior admin capabilities. > > But still I will be looking for a new machine so probably what I will do > is grab a Sun Fire X2250 single socket quad core Xeon with 2GB of memory > so that I can either use as virtualized primary and secondary or > alternatively run other services such as web server, mail server etc on top! My point was that this is such a trivial DNS server that you can use whatever you want. And running it on the same machine as other services should be no problem. > How can observer the query count? Is there a command or table or > something or is it just how many hits the systems gets on port 53 > identified from some form of logging software? BIND logs hit statistics periodically to syslog, and you can use "rndc stats" to append statistics immediately to a file. See the BIND manual for details. -- Barry Margolin, bar...@alum.mit.edu Arlington, MA *** PLEASE don't copy me on replies, I'll read them in the group *** _______________________________________________ bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users