[dns-operations] BIND performance difference between RHEL 6.4 and FreeBSD 7

Chris Adams cma at cmadams.net
Fri Apr 25 18:32:53 UTC 2014


Once upon a time, Robert Edmonds <edmonds at mycre.ws> said:
> No, it doesn't.  SO_REUSEPORT must be explicitly enabled on the
> listening socket, and the string "SO_REUSEPORT" does not appear anywhere
> in the BIND codebase.  (I'm also fairly certain SO_REUSEPORT hasn't been
> backported to RHEL 6's kernel, but I haven't checked that.  In mainline
> Linux, it is only present in versions >= 3.9.)

I didn't try actually using it, but the current RHEL 6 kernel-headers do
define SO_REUSEPORT.

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Chris Adams <cma at cmadams.net>



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