How Does BIND Perform on PPC?

wmulvihillDxR asks: "I'm getting ready to replace our DNS box which serves about 15 zones but will soon grow to more. The current DNS box (a x86 box) gets hit pretty heavy sometimes. I'd like to know if any /.ers have had any success running BIND on any of the PPC Linux distros. We have a multitude of Mac boxen sitting around doing nothing (Yes, I work in a Mac shop, but use Linux on x86 for our servers). I'd prefer to put it on a x86 box but we don't have many of those handy. Are there any reports on using PPC machines for DNS? Any recommended PPC Linux distros?"

Comments

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[SEWilco]

Maybe you don't need BIND.

• djbdns
• other Unix DNS servers

It's really going to be a matter of...

[bconway]

CPU and network speed. The architecture of the machine involved really isn't going to decide anything, especially if the CPU speed difference between the two machines is large. Stick with what you're comfortable running Linux on, and just find a decent-mhz machine.