[AusNOG] ISP DNS Options

[David Beveridge]

Looks like knot has an interesting feature: synth records for automatic
forward and reverse zone.

Will have to give this a try. Especially good for IPv6.

dave

On Tue, May 3, 2016 at 1:16 PM, Bill Woodcock <woody at pch.net> wrote:

> Knot and Unbound would be your higher-performance-per-core options, but
> any of the three would work fine.
>
>
>                 -Bill
>
>
> On May 2, 2016, at 20:04, "paul+ausnog at oxygennetworks.com.au" <
> paul+ausnog at oxygennetworks.com.au> wrote:
>
> 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 <markzzzsmith at gmail.com>]
>
> *Sent:* Tuesday, 3 May 2016 12:56 PM
> *To:* Mark Andrews
> *Cc:* paul+ausnog at oxygennetworks.com.au; <ausnog at lists.ausnog.net>
> *Subject:* Re: [AusNOG] ISP DNS Options
>
>
>
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> On 3 May 2016 12:50 PM, "Mark Andrews" <marka at isc.org> wrote:
> >
> >
> > In message <12115c50-a610-420b-a69d-ee81bac9d276 at oxygennetworks.com.au>,
> "paul+ausnog 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.
>
> > Mark
> > --
> > Mark Andrews, ISC
> > 1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia
> > PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742                 INTERNET: marka at isc.org
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