BIND vs ncsd

[Drew Marshall]

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Dhawal Doshy wrote:

> Drew Marshall wrote:
>
>>
>> Now I know the MSG SIZE is large with the Bind9 look up but there is 
>> no mistaking the 271ms against Bind's 817ms.
>>
>> Hardly scientific I know but that is why I have tended to favour 
>> DJBDNS. No Holy War here, if any one has ideas how to make Bind go 
>> faster I'm all ears :-)   (For the record it's compiled with threads 
>> on a FreeBSD 5.3 box. Unthreaded look ups were in excess of 4000ms!).
>
>
> Here are some *independent* results (as un-scientific as it can get) 
> for 'dig cw.com'
>
> djbdns 1.05
> Pre-cache Query time: 225 msec
> Post-cache Query time: 2 msec
>
> bind 9.2.0
> Pre-cache Query time: 234 msec
> Post-cache Query time: 1 msec
>
> and here is dan's reply to knowles
> http://cr.yp.to/djbdns/knowles.html
>
> i am so easily influenced, but post 2nd (or was it 3rd) thoughts i'll
> put my doubts to an end and happily continue using dnscache.

Well I have just put another box over to Bind so we will see. Pre this 
version of Bind (9.3.1) the look ups were slow enough that I would 
notice lag on web page loading. So far I haven't so may be there is 
reason for me to move...

It does become more complex as my DNS servers are also authorative for 
various domains as well as caching and Bind does make that easier, only 
needing one IP address (I know there is a patch but I have never quite 
got there). Who knows? Only thing that is certain is I am more confused 
(Which doesn't take much) as to a preference.

Drew

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