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Introduction "> @@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ <body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"> <div class="navheader"> <table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"> -<tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Chapter 2. <span class="acronym">BIND</span> Resource Requirements</th></tr> +<tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Chapter 2. <acronym class="acronym">BIND</acronym> Resource Requirements</th></tr> <tr> <td width="20%" align="left"> <a accesskey="p" href="Bv9ARM.ch01.html">Prev</a> </td> @@ -41,44 +41,44 @@ </div> <div class="chapter" lang="en"> <div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title"> -<a name="Bv9ARM.ch02"></a>Chapter 2. <span class="acronym">BIND</span> Resource Requirements</h2></div></div></div> +<a name="Bv9ARM.ch02"></a>Chapter 2. <acronym class="acronym">BIND</acronym> Resource Requirements</h2></div></div></div> <div class="toc"> <p><b>Table of Contents</b></p> <dl> -<dt><span class="sect1"><a href="Bv9ARM.ch02.html#id2547108">Hardware requirements</a></span></dt> -<dt><span class="sect1"><a href="Bv9ARM.ch02.html#id2547132">CPU Requirements</a></span></dt> -<dt><span class="sect1"><a href="Bv9ARM.ch02.html#id2547143">Memory Requirements</a></span></dt> -<dt><span class="sect1"><a href="Bv9ARM.ch02.html#id2547158">Name Server Intensive Environment Issues</a></span></dt> -<dt><span class="sect1"><a href="Bv9ARM.ch02.html#id2547303">Supported Operating Systems</a></span></dt> +<dt><span class="sect1"><a href="Bv9ARM.ch02.html#id2570868">Hardware requirements</a></span></dt> +<dt><span class="sect1"><a href="Bv9ARM.ch02.html#id2570892">CPU Requirements</a></span></dt> +<dt><span class="sect1"><a href="Bv9ARM.ch02.html#id2570903">Memory Requirements</a></span></dt> +<dt><span class="sect1"><a href="Bv9ARM.ch02.html#id2570918">Name Server Intensive Environment Issues</a></span></dt> +<dt><span class="sect1"><a href="Bv9ARM.ch02.html#id2570995">Supported Operating Systems</a></span></dt> </dl> </div> <div class="sect1" lang="en"> <div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"> -<a name="id2547108"></a>Hardware requirements</h2></div></div></div> -<p><span class="acronym">DNS</span> hardware requirements have traditionally been quite modest. +<a name="id2570868"></a>Hardware requirements</h2></div></div></div> +<p><acronym class="acronym">DNS</acronym> hardware requirements have traditionally been quite modest. For many installations, servers that have been pensioned off from -active duty have performed admirably as <span class="acronym">DNS</span> servers.</p> -<p>The DNSSEC and IPv6 features of <span class="acronym">BIND</span> 9 may prove to be quite +active duty have performed admirably as <acronym class="acronym">DNS</acronym> servers.</p> +<p>The DNSSEC and IPv6 features of <acronym class="acronym">BIND</acronym> 9 may prove to be quite CPU intensive however, so organizations that make heavy use of these features may wish to consider larger systems for these applications. -<span class="acronym">BIND</span> 9 is fully multithreaded, allowing full utilization of +<acronym class="acronym">BIND</acronym> 9 is fully multithreaded, allowing full utilization of multiprocessor systems for installations that need it.</p> </div> <div class="sect1" lang="en"> <div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"> -<a name="id2547132"></a>CPU Requirements</h2></div></div></div> -<p>CPU requirements for <span class="acronym">BIND</span> 9 range from i486-class machines +<a name="id2570892"></a>CPU Requirements</h2></div></div></div> +<p>CPU requirements for <acronym class="acronym">BIND</acronym> 9 range from i486-class machines for serving of static zones without caching, to enterprise-class machines if you intend to process many dynamic updates and DNSSEC signed zones, serving many thousands of queries per second.</p> </div> <div class="sect1" lang="en"> <div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"> -<a name="id2547143"></a>Memory Requirements</h2></div></div></div> +<a name="id2570903"></a>Memory Requirements</h2></div></div></div> <p>The memory of the server has to be large enough to fit the cache and zones loaded off disk. The <span><strong class="command">max-cache-size</strong></span> option can be used to limit the amount of memory used by the cache, -at the expense of reducing cache hit rates and causing more <span class="acronym">DNS</span> +at the expense of reducing cache hit rates and causing more <acronym class="acronym">DNS</acronym> traffic. It is still good practice to have enough memory to load all zone and cache data into memory — unfortunately, the best way to determine this for a given installation is to watch the name server @@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ fast as they are being inserted.</p> </div> <div class="sect1" lang="en"> <div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"> -<a name="id2547158"></a>Name Server Intensive Environment Issues</h2></div></div></div> +<a name="id2570918"></a>Name Server Intensive Environment Issues</h2></div></div></div> <p>For name server intensive environments, there are two alternative configurations that may be used. The first is where clients and any second-level internal name servers query a main name server, which @@ -102,8 +102,8 @@ as none of the name servers share their cached data.</p> </div> <div class="sect1" lang="en"> <div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"> -<a name="id2547303"></a>Supported Operating Systems</h2></div></div></div> -<p>ISC <span class="acronym">BIND</span> 9 compiles and runs on a large number +<a name="id2570995"></a>Supported Operating Systems</h2></div></div></div> +<p>ISC <acronym class="acronym">BIND</acronym> 9 compiles and runs on a large number of Unix-like operating system and on Windows NT / 2000. For an up-to-date list of supported systems, see the README file in the top level directory of the BIND 9 source distribution.</p> |