Gentoo tops BIND benchmarks --------------------------- The Internet Systems Consortium[35] conducted a benchmark to test various operating systems for their suitability to run BIND 9[36]. Amongst all the operating systems tested, Gentoo Linux running on kernel version 2.6.20.7 topped the charts, processing 93,000 queries per second! Fedora Core came second with 87,000 queries/second, followed by FreeBSD-7 (84,000 queries/second).
35. http://www.isc.org/ 36. http://packages.gentoo.org/package/net-dns/bind For more information, check out ISC's page on the benchmark[37]. 37. http://new.isc.org/proj/dnsperf/OStest.html
