[SOLVED] nameserver daemon with smallest footprint

malayo · 02-07-2011, 01:05 AM

today i found out that my bind9 on debian 5 suddenly failed and it also consumed 100mb of RAM at most times.

please suggest a nameserver daemon with smaller memory footprint to replace bind9.

thanks.

Web31337 · 02-07-2011, 01:24 AM

Are you running authoritative or recursive DNS server?
There are nsd(one being run on some root DNS servers) for authoritative-only server or dnsmasq for recursive. dnsmasq is being run on my router with tomato-usb opensource firmware, using around 720 kb (though, linked against uclibc).
Additionally, you can build a newer version of bind from source, if you'd like to try solving this with minimum migration headache. Though, I can't guarantee that will solve memleaks/faults.
Hope this helps.

malayo · 02-07-2011, 01:59 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Web31337

Are you running authoritative or recursive DNS server?
There are nsd(one being run on some root DNS servers) for authoritative-only server or dnsmasq for recursive. dnsmasq is being run on my router with tomato-usb opensource firmware, using around 720 kb (though, linked against uclibc).
Additionally, you can build a newer version of bind from source, if you'd like to try solving this with minimum migration headache. Though, I can't guarantee that will solve memleaks/faults.
Hope this helps.

i'm running a authoritative name server

thanks for the suggestion. I will check on nsd