On 1 Jul, Andrew McNaughton wrote: > It's quite straight-forward to implement a DNS cache on linux -- run bind > on the box. Isn't this going in circles? For some reason people wanted > to get the cache off the box. > > Personally I haven't found that removing bind gives a performance benefit > (quite the opposite), but different systems use resources in different > combinations, so YMMV.
Actually, I gather that Linux's implementation of some part of the email address handling (perhaps the DNS lookups or the reverse lookups or something), was orders of magnitude more inefficient than the same handling under Solaris. If you're interested, I can get more precise info from work tomorrow. luke -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
