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[REMX]

I have a fairly sophisticated setup for my DNS servers (round robin, load balanced and clouded) but after 2 million queries, look ups begin to take up to 20 seconds with majority of clients querying timing out for which I have to stop/start the application on 12 servers. I was using BIND but moved to MyDNS which showed negligible difference and now I'm trying PowerDNS. I'm not sure if it's a problem with the routers or the software because I don't have anything or anyones data to compare it with.

As the title says, what DNS server software do you use? Some of the popular unix based packages that have floated around are: BIND, MyDNS and PowerDNS. Could you also give a brief description why please including the average queries you receive per day?

[wijtec]

Originally Posted by REMX

I have a fairly sophisticated setup for my DNS servers (round robin, load balanced and clouded) but after 2 million queries, look ups begin to take up to 20 seconds with majority of clients querying timing out for which I have to stop/start the application on 12 servers. I was using BIND but moved to MyDNS which showed negligible difference and now I'm trying PowerDNS. I'm not sure if it's a problem with the routers or the software because I don't have anything or anyones data to compare it with.

As the title says, what DNS server software do you use? Some of the popular unix based packages that have floated around are: BIND, MyDNS and PowerDNS. Could you also give a brief description why please including the average queries you receive per day?

We use powerdns only, but since we have a (comparingly) low amount of domains and a widespread of various dns servers, we have nothing like the numbers you are naming.

What I am wondering about is what you use as a backend, I'm bluntly assuming here you are talking about authoritive nameservers and not recursors.

[liteserver]

BIND and a PowerDNS cluster - works great for me.

[quantumphysics]

Using PowerDNS.

[AquaDog]

PowerDNS also using around here

[depee]

PowerDNS and NSD

[plumsauce]

We use our own software becausee nothing else meets the operational requirements.

Very reliable, it just runs, and runs, and runs ...

[Dougy]

I love PowerDNS

My hosting servers use BIND because it just makes DirectAdmin happy but I do use PowerDNS for certain things.

PowerDNS on rails is nice too.

[i2dotnet]

i'm still with Bind and wanna try powerdns too.

[server4sale]

TinyDNS Performance wise it will blow everyone

[Frands]

First: Is it recursive or authoritative DNS?

Either way, 2 million queries is not much at all, and something in your setup must be done wrong.
I run PowerDNS with MySQL backend to serve authoritative requests. The setup is 2 clusters with 2 active nodes each. The clusers are geographically separated and are running behind a load balancer.

Each node has currently delivered more than 3 billion requests, averaging at a bit over 100 per second and are still going strong.