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author | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-04-07 15:59:48 +0000 |
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committer | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-04-07 15:59:48 +0000 |
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Adding upstream version 1:9.18.19.upstream/1%9.18.19upstream
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diff --git a/doc/arm/requirements.inc.rst b/doc/arm/requirements.inc.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f15bd57 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/arm/requirements.inc.rst @@ -0,0 +1,72 @@ +.. Copyright (C) Internet Systems Consortium, Inc. ("ISC") +.. +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: MPL-2.0 +.. +.. This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public +.. License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this +.. file, you can obtain one at https://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/. +.. +.. See the COPYRIGHT file distributed with this work for additional +.. information regarding copyright ownership. + +.. _requirements: + +Resource Requirements +===================== + +.. _hw_req: + +Hardware Requirements +--------------------- + +DNS hardware requirements have traditionally been quite modest. For many +installations, servers that have been retired from active duty +have performed admirably as DNS servers. + +However, the DNSSEC features of BIND 9 may be quite CPU-intensive, +so organizations that make heavy use of these features may wish +to consider larger systems for these applications. BIND 9 is fully +multithreaded, allowing full utilization of multiprocessor systems for +installations that need it. + +.. _cpu_req: + +CPU Requirements +---------------- + +CPU requirements for BIND 9 range from i386-class machines, for serving +static zones without caching, to enterprise-class machines +to process many dynamic updates and DNSSEC-signed zones, serving +many thousands of queries per second. + +.. _mem_req: + +Memory Requirements +------------------- + +Server memory must be sufficient to hold both the cache and the +zones loaded from disk. The :any:`max-cache-size` option can +limit the amount of memory used by the cache, at the expense of reducing +cache hit rates and causing more DNS traffic. It is still good practice +to have enough memory to load all zone and cache data into memory; +unfortunately, the best way to determine this for a given installation +is to watch the name server in operation. After a few weeks, the server +process should reach a relatively stable size where entries are expiring +from the cache as fast as they are being inserted. + +.. _intensive_env: + +Name Server-Intensive Environment Issues +---------------------------------------- + +For name server-intensive environments, there are two +configurations that may be used. The first is one where clients and any +second-level internal name servers query the main name server, which has +enough memory to build a large cache; this approach minimizes the +bandwidth used by external name lookups. The second alternative is to +set up second-level internal name servers to make queries independently. +In this configuration, none of the individual machines need to have as +much memory or CPU power as in the first alternative, but this has the +disadvantage of making many more external queries, as none of the name +servers share their cached data. + |