On Fri, Feb 18, 2005 at 03:32:47PM -0600, Adam wrote: > A friend of mine has an interesting situation. Their DNS server gets > around 2 to 3 million dns queries a day its running on a quad xeon > system with 4 gigs of ram. Its running Bind 9.2.2. /me jaw drops. IMHO, that's a beefy machine for DNS. Perhaps several smaller machines would be in order. Is this the only machine doing DNS on site? Is it an authorative server? > At least twice a week if not more their server will stop looking up > domains that are not cached. > They end up having to restart bind to get things working again. > > Any ideas? Try out dnscache from djbdns. :) http://cr.yp.to/djbdns.html Nate