[dns-operations] 86198 queries per second from BIND 9

[Brad Knowles]

At 4:19 PM +0100 2006-05-26, John.Dickinson at nominet.org.uk wrote:

>  I would be very interested to hear about other peoples experience of load
>  testing nameservers on this and other hardware. Any questions and
>  suggestions for other tests as also welcome.

	Rick Jones at HP is the guy you want to talk to.  I based my 
testing for my LISA 2002 talk (see 
<http://www.shub-internet.org/brad/papers/dnscomparison/>) on the 
stuff that he had done and previously reported.  My testing was not 
even a piddling drop in the bucket compared to his.

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