Re: Performance Tuning RHEL 5 and Bind

2013-10-28 Thread brett smith
OK I have the source of the problem now I just need an elegant way to fix it and most cost ( Network TCP ) effective way to fix it The Windows Domain is responsible for X.internal.example.com and I am presently forwarding X.internal.example.com to their nameservers DC, resulting in TCP queries.

Re: Performance Tuning RHEL 5 and Bind

2013-10-28 Thread Alan Clegg
On Oct 28, 2013, at 8:08 PM, brett smith brett.s9...@gmail.com wrote: OK I have the source of the problem now I just need an elegant way to fix it and most cost ( Network TCP ) effective way to fix it The Windows Domain is responsible for X.internal.example.com and I am presently

Re: Performance Tuning RHEL 5 and Bind

2013-10-28 Thread Charles Swiger
Hi— On Oct 28, 2013, at 9:05 PM, Alan Clegg a...@clegg.com wrote: Slave X.internal.example.com +1; it’s also worth looking into why there is such a high volume of DNS queries. Is it simply a big network with a lot of chatty clients? Or is TTL turned down so low that client side caching is not

Re: Performance Tuning RHEL 5 and Bind

2013-10-24 Thread Carsten Strotmann
Hi, Kevin Darcy k...@chrysler.com writes: Are these queries mostly for names in an Active Directory domain? The default for Active Directory is for *every* Domain Controller to register NS records at the apex of the AD domain. Pretty soon, for any reasonably-sized AD infrastructure, all of

Re: Performance Tuning RHEL 5 and Bind

2013-10-22 Thread Alan Clegg
On Oct 21, 2013, at 9:47 AM, wbr...@e1b.org wrote: From: Alan Clegg a...@clegg.com Fix your windows clients. You can't fix stupid. I have lots of windows clients and they don't exhibit this feature. There's something wrong on the windows clients and it's not the norm. To be honest,

Re: Performance Tuning RHEL 5 and Bind

2013-10-22 Thread Mike Hoskins (michoski)
-Original Message- From: Alan Clegg a...@clegg.com Date: Tuesday, October 22, 2013 7:44 AM To: bind-users@lists.isc.org bind-users@lists.isc.org Subject: Re: Performance Tuning RHEL 5 and Bind On Oct 21, 2013, at 9:47 AM, wbr...@e1b.org wrote: From: Alan Clegg a...@clegg.com Fix

Re: Performance Tuning RHEL 5 and Bind

2013-10-22 Thread Kevin Darcy
Are these queries mostly for names in an Active Directory domain? The default for Active Directory is for *every* Domain Controller to register NS records at the apex of the AD domain. Pretty soon, for any reasonably-sized AD infrastructure, all of those NSes cause *all* queries for *any* name

Re: Performance Tuning RHEL 5 and Bind

2013-10-22 Thread brett smith
October 2013 12:35 PM To: sth...@nethelp.no Cc: bind-users@lists.isc.org Subject: Re: Performance Tuning RHEL 5 and Bind When all the Windows PC's are switched to our resolver, bind stops responding. rndc querylog shows queries coming thru, I changed tcp-clients from 1000 to 1 but DNS seems

Re: Performance Tuning RHEL 5 and Bind

2013-10-22 Thread Alan Clegg
On Oct 22, 2013, at 8:29 PM, brett smith brett.s9...@gmail.com wrote: Yes tuning off IPTABLES conn-tracking makes a huge difference. I also followed: https://access.redhat.com/site/solutions/304713 https://access.redhat.com/site/solutions/168483 I still see some SYN_SENT from Windows

Re: Performance Tuning RHEL 5 and Bind

2013-10-21 Thread WBrown
From: Alan Clegg a...@clegg.com Fix your windows clients. You can't fix stupid. Confidentiality Notice: This electronic message and any attachments may contain confidential or privileged information, and is intended only for the individual or entity identified above as the addressee. If

RE: Performance Tuning RHEL 5 and Bind

2013-10-21 Thread Lightner, Jeff
- From: bind-users-bounces+jlightner=water@lists.isc.org [mailto:bind-users-bounces+jlightner=water@lists.isc.org] On Behalf Of wbr...@e1b.org Sent: Monday, October 21, 2013 9:47 AM To: bind-users@lists.isc.org Subject: Re: Performance Tuning RHEL 5 and Bind From: Alan Clegg

Re: Performance Tuning RHEL 5 and Bind

2013-10-20 Thread Steven Carr
On 20 October 2013 02:34, brett smith brett.s9...@gmail.com wrote: When all the Windows PC's are switched to our resolver, bind stops responding. rndc querylog shows queries coming thru, I changed tcp-clients from 1000 to 1 but DNS seems lagging, so we switched back to the original

Re: Performance Tuning RHEL 5 and Bind

2013-10-20 Thread Alan Clegg
On Oct 19, 2013, at 9:34 PM, brett smith brett.s9...@gmail.com wrote: When all the Windows PC's are switched to our resolver, bind stops responding. What does stops responding mean? Any logs? rndc querylog shows queries coming thru, I changed tcp-clients from 1000 to 1 but DNS seems

RE: Performance Tuning RHEL 5 and Bind

2013-10-20 Thread Stuart Browne
Subject: Re: Performance Tuning RHEL 5 and Bind When all the Windows PC's are switched to our resolver, bind stops responding. rndc querylog shows queries coming thru, I changed tcp-clients from 1000 to 1 but DNS seems lagging, so we switched back to the original Windows Domain resolver

Re: Performance Tuning RHEL 5 and Bind

2013-10-19 Thread sthaug
I need to build a pair DNS cache servers to support 5000+ clients ( PC's and Servers ). I have been looking for some guides on tuning BIND and the OS for Enterprise performance rather than the defaults. The version of bind is bind-9.8.2. 5000 clients is such a low number that I don't think

Performance Tuning RHEL 5 and Bind

2013-10-18 Thread brett smith
I need to build a pair DNS cache servers to support 5000+ clients ( PC's and Servers ). I have been looking for some guides on tuning BIND and the OS for Enterprise performance rather than the defaults. The version of bind is bind-9.8.2. Thank You, Brett

Re: another performance tuning question

2012-12-02 Thread Mike Hoskins (michoski)
-Original Message- From: Jeremy C. Reed jr...@isc.org Date: Friday, November 30, 2012 4:18 PM To: Adamiec, Lawrence ladam...@kentlaw.iit.edu Cc: bind-users@lists.isc.org bind-users@lists.isc.org Subject: Re: another performance tuning question On Fri, 30 Nov 2012, Adamiec, Lawrence wrote

another performance tuning question

2012-11-30 Thread Adamiec, Lawrence
I must be doing something wrong. I ran queryperf and the results don't look right, 13 and 23 queries per second? What am I doing wrong? I ran the queryperf on the same machine that is running BIND. I got similar results when running against the master server. I ran the test one right after

Re: another performance tuning question

2012-11-30 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
On Fri, 30 Nov 2012, Adamiec, Lawrence wrote: I got similar results when running against the master server. Then why so many lost?   Queries sent:         11000 queries   Queries completed:    8968 queries   Queries lost:         2032 queries ...   Percentage completed:  81.53%  

Re: Performance tuning

2012-11-28 Thread Carsten Strotmann
Adamiec, Lawrence ladam...@kentlaw.iit.edu writes: Hello Lawrence, you problems might not be related to the configuration of your DNS Server software (BIND), but it can be related to your internal name resolution inside your organisation (forwarders, caches, mixed caching/authoritative DNS etc).

Re: Performance tuning

2012-11-27 Thread WBrown
Adamiec, Lawrence ladam...@kentlaw.iit.edu wrote on 11/26/2012 01:12:48 PM: To the best of my knowledge, there are no problems with our DNS. We only host 25 domains. The report must also address these two specific questions: 1. Why does www.kentlaw.iit.edu load quicker than

Re: Performance tuning

2012-11-27 Thread Adamiec, Lawrence
Hi, My original post was about writing a report to optimize our DNS servers and the report needed to address two questions. Based on the answers I received, I will write our servers are already optimized and no further tuning is needed. Now about the two specific questions for the report. Q1

Performance tuning

2012-11-26 Thread Adamiec, Lawrence
Hi, I have been tasked with authoring a DNS report to achieve optimal performance. The report must include: CPU usage memory usage bandwidth usage throughput latency I have found some information regarding the number of queries processed per minute but nothing of value for the above areas. Is

Re: Performance tuning

2012-11-26 Thread Doug Barton
What a delightfully vague requirement. :) I would push back a bit on exactly what problems are attempted to be solved here. The BIND defaults are about as efficient as they can be, especially so in later versions. Doug On 11/26/2012 11:01 AM, Adamiec, Lawrence wrote: Hi, I have been tasked

Re: Performance tuning

2012-11-26 Thread Adamiec, Lawrence
To the best of my knowledge, there are no problems with our DNS. We only host 25 domains. The report must also address these two specific questions: 1. Why does www.kentlaw.iit.edu load quicker than kentlaw.iit.edu in any browser? 2. What happens if we remove the forwarders option

RE: Performance tuning

2012-11-26 Thread Lightner, Jeff
. From: bind-users-bounces+jlightner=water@lists.isc.org [mailto:bind-users-bounces+jlightner=water@lists.isc.org] On Behalf Of Adamiec, Lawrence Sent: Monday, November 26, 2012 1:13 PM To: bind-users@lists.isc.org Subject: Re: Performance tuning To the best of my knowledge

Re: Performance tuning

2012-11-26 Thread Sten Carlsen
On 26/11/12 19:12, Adamiec, Lawrence wrote: To the best of my knowledge, there are no problems with our DNS. We only host 25 domains. The report must also address these two specific questions: 1. Why does www.kentlaw.iit.edu http://www.kentlaw.iit.edu load quicker than

Re: Performance tuning

2012-11-26 Thread Sten Carlsen
=water@lists.isc.org [mailto:bind-users-bounces+jlightner=water@lists.isc.org] *On Behalf Of *Adamiec, Lawrence *Sent:* Monday, November 26, 2012 1:13 PM *To:* bind-users@lists.isc.org *Subject:* Re: Performance tuning To the best of my knowledge, there are no problems with our DNS

Re: Performance tuning

2012-11-26 Thread Edward DeLargy
-users-bounces+jlightner=water@lists.isc.org [mailto: bind-users-bounces+jlightner=water@lists.isc.org] *On Behalf Of *Adamiec, Lawrence *Sent:* Monday, November 26, 2012 1:13 PM *To:* bind-users@lists.isc.org *Subject:* Re: Performance tuning ** ** To the best of my knowledge

RE: Performance tuning

2012-11-26 Thread Ben Croswell
in overall timing. ** ** *From:* bind-users-bounces+jlightner=water@lists.isc.org [mailto: bind-users-bounces+jlightner=water@lists.isc.org] *On Behalf Of *Adamiec, Lawrence *Sent:* Monday, November 26, 2012 1:13 PM *To:* bind-users@lists.isc.org *Subject:* Re: Performance tuning

Re: Performance tuning

2012-11-26 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hi-- On Nov 26, 2012, at 10:12 AM, Adamiec, Lawrence wrote: The report must also address these two specific questions: • Why does www.kentlaw.iit.edu load quicker than kentlaw.iit.edu in any browser? • What happens if we remove the forwarders option from named.conf? I can't

Re: Performance tuning

2012-11-26 Thread Leonardo Santagostini
I see no problems. [ec2-user@domU-12-31-39-06-2E-64 ~]$ time dig www.kentlaw.iit.edu ; DiG 9.7.0-P2-RedHat-9.7.0-5.P2.6.amzn1 www.kentlaw.iit.edu ;; global options: +cmd ;; Got answer: ;; -HEADER- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 54160 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0,

Re: Performance tuning

2012-11-26 Thread Adamiec, Lawrence
Thanks to everyone who replied. Larry On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 1:25 PM, Leonardo Santagostini lsantagost...@gmail.com wrote: I see no problems. [ec2-user@domU-12-31-39-06-2E-64 ~]$ time dig www.kentlaw.iit.edu ; DiG 9.7.0-P2-RedHat-9.7.0-5.P2.6.amzn1 www.kentlaw.iit.edu ;; global

Performance tuning tips required for bind 9.6.1-P3!!!

2010-07-13 Thread Shiva Raman
Dear All This is in reference to the performance tuning , i had already gone through the mailing list archives , but could not find answer to my specific query mentioned here. I had installed bind as a caching name server for test purposes and planning to test performance that could give me

Re: Performance tuning tips required for bind 9.6.1-P3!!!

2010-07-13 Thread Dave Sparro
On 7/13/2010 1:11 PM, Shiva Raman wrote: Dear All This is in reference to the performance tuning , i had already gone through the mailing list archives , but could not find answer to my specific query mentioned here. Right now i am using queryperf to test the performance with sample query