26 Nov
1998
26 Nov
'98
3:19 a.m.
Stephen Stuart wrote:
Ok; I'm there... but it seems to me that disk caching, possibly application tuned, and 3/4 of a shitload of ram should solve that problem. If you really need to serve that much DNS, you can _afford_ a 4GB Ram Alphaserver, no?
Jerry Scharf once walked me through the math on .com with DNSSEC.
4 GB ... heh, heh, heh. :-)
Or you can do a 50-line hack in a unix kernel and do it with a dozen cheapo PCs. Details are left as an excercise to the reader. Hint: hashing is a well-known but often overlooked trick. --vadim