Ok; I'm there... but it seems to me that disk caching, possibly
application tuned, and 3/4 of a shitload of ram should solve that
problem. If you really need to serve that much DNS, you can _afford_ a
4GB Ram Alphaserver, no?
Jerry Scharf once walked me through the math on .com with DNSSEC.
4 GB ... heh, heh, heh. 
Stephen
Stephen Stuart wrote:
> Ok; I'm there... but it seems to me that disk caching, possibly
> application tuned, and 3/4 of a shitload of ram should solve that
> problem. If you really need to serve that much DNS, you can
> _afford_ a 4GB Ram Alphaserver, no?Jerry Scharf once walked me through the math on .com with DNSSEC.
4 GB ... heh, heh, heh.
Or you can do a 50-line hack in a unix kernel and do it with
a dozen cheapo PCs. Details are left as an excercise to the
reader. Hint: hashing is a well-known but often overlooked trick.
--vadim