[lug] Clustering for Load-Balancing and Fault-Tolerance??

[Sean Reifschneider]

On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 10:04:03AM -0700, Shannon Johnston wrote:
>These are good suggestions but they are things I've already done.
>I'm running Bind 9 (lastest release) and I'm limiting queries to our
>networks and zone transfers are limited to just a couple of machines.
>Just the sheer amount of traffic is the problem (I think.)
>Getting good statistics is something I'm very interested in but haven't
>researched it yet.

It *MIGHT* be worthwhile to explore djbdns...  Dan's page about it implies
that it's pretty fast and able to handle lots of requests.  It's REALLY
easy to set up as just a caching DNS server, and I've found Netscape is
MUCH happier when I'm running it instead of BIND on my laptop...

Sean
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