On Thu, 2025-08-07 at 22:02 -0400, Josh Luthman via NANOG wrote:
Webmin is a gui for bind if you're managing a zone.
For 30k users it sounds more like a cache server, which bind/named would be a great option for.
You can of course should spread the load out across several servers for redundancy. DNS clients typically round robin requests between servers. On Linux boxes, you can also set up client caches which will reduce requests across the network. Looks like Windows clients and OSX have a similar caching service. Bind also caches requests from remote zones as well. I am not familiar with other DNS servers, but I bet they all have similar functionality. It may just come down to ease of administration. -- Smoot Carl-Mitchell System/Network Architect voice: +1 480 922-7313 cell: +1 602 421-9005 smoot@tic.com