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From: sbirn@bofh.org.il (Steve Birnbaum)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Minimum machine for nameservice?
Date: 18 Oct 1996 21:49:34 +0200
Organization: NetMedia
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Message-ID: <548n0e$61f@shimon.netmedia.net.il>
References: <chad-1710962353430001@sverige.pengar.com>
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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

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