FreeBSD 7.1 and BIND exploit

[sthaug at nethelp.no]

I wrote in an earlier message:

> I've been trying out unbound-1.0.1 on a 7.0-STABLE box (2.67 GHz i86,
> uniprocessor, 32 bit mode, 2 GB memory).
> 
> Don't know what I'm doing wrong so far - but I've been unable to scale
> Unbound to more than a couple of hundred q/s.  Any more than that and
> I get serious (several hundred ms) delays on lots of queries, including
> stuff which is known to be in the cache.
> 
> I'll be doing some more Unbound tests the next few days. For now, both
> CNS and PowerDNS handle our load (around 2.5K q/s) fine.

As a followup: I'm now happily running Unbound (together with Nominum
CNS) in our standard anycast configuration. I've gotten Unbound to
handle our regular query load of 2000 - 2500 q/s just fine.

Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug at nethelp.no