[AusNOG] ISP DNS Options

[Tony Wicks]

Personally, I’d recommend sticking with bind, but load balance a couple of VM’s behind a couple of pairs of entry level (say 100D, VM01 or larger) Fortigate pairs (built in basic but perfectly adequate load balancing/health checking). That way you can easily and cheaply scale, grow and maintain as needed. This works well.

 

cheers

 

From: AusNOG [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of paul+ausnog at oxygennetworks.com.au
Sent: Tuesday, 3 May 2016 3:03 PM
Cc: ausnog at lists.ausnog.net
Subject: Re: [AusNOG] ISP DNS Options

 

Thanks for the replies, I didn’t say BIND wasn’t working or couldn’t handle that load, I just asked about other options.

 

Regards

Paul

 

From: Mark Smith [mailto:markzzzsmith at gmail.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, 3 May 2016 12:56 PM
To: Mark Andrews
Cc: paul+ausnog at oxygennetworks.com.au <mailto:paul+ausnog at oxygennetworks.com.au> ; <ausnog at lists.ausnog.net <mailto:ausnog at lists.ausnog.net> >
Subject: Re: [AusNOG] ISP DNS Options

 


On 3 May 2016 12:50 PM, "Mark Andrews" <marka at isc.org <mailto:marka at isc.org> > wrote:
>
>
> In message <12115c50-a610-420b-a69d-ee81bac9d276 at oxygennetworks.com.au <mailto:12115c50-a610-420b-a69d-ee81bac9d276 at oxygennetworks.com.au> >, "paul+ausnog at oxygennetworks.com.au <mailto:paul%2Bausnog at oxygennetworks.com.au> " writes:
> > Hi All, we are looking at DNS Server options for an ISP business of
> > around 10,000 customers using ADSL, NBN, Ethernet, and Wireless services.
> >
> > Currently the BIND solution which is in place is working but we are
> > wondering what people would suggest as a next step that is easy to manage
> > and cost effective to implement and that can grow with the business to
> > handle 20-50,000 services eventually.
> >
> > Any advice would be appreciated.
> > >
> > Thanks
> > Paul
>
> What makes you think named can't handle that many clients?
>

+1

Circa 2008 two named servers were handing 50k+ ADSL customers, load shared by alternating anycast DNS server addresses on a per- BRAS bases. That included a view selected based on source address, which may increase processing load over a vanilla named configuration.

CPU utilisation on your named server should be the first way you measure your available DNS server/service capacity. 

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