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From: chad@pengar.com (Chad Leigh)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Minimum machine for nameservice?
Date: Fri, 18 Oct 1996 21:38:46 -0600
Organization: Pengar Enterprises, Inc.
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In article <548n0e$61f@shimon.netmedia.net.il>, sbirn@bofh.org.il (Steve
Birnbaum) wrote:

> In article <chad-1710962353430001@sverige.pengar.com>,
> Chad Leigh <chad@pengar.com> wrote:
> >I guess the biggest question is: is 8mb enough?  Only running named
> 
> Nope.
> 
> Especially if you are going to have this servicing client lookups...
> ie are people going to point their PC's resolvers at this machine?
> named itself can grow in memory to 10MB or more.
> 
>   Steve
> 


A couple of Macs and PCs, maybe a dozen at the most.  The main purpose of
the machines is to service incoming requests over an FT1 for names in our
domains for people on the outside wanting to look in.

I guess that when I need to I'll drop a few more 4mb SIMMs in...  For now
the 8mb is it ($$ going to RAM and disks for main server machines)

Thanks!
Chad