[nsd-users] tinydns to nsd

[richard lucassen]

On Sat, 28 Dec 2019 22:39:05 +0100
Andreas Schwarz via nsd-users <nsd-users at lists.nlnetlabs.nl> wrote:

> On the "nsd-control addzone/delzone": it works a bit different from
> defining zones in your configuration, just as the error message says.
> 
> It is rather intended to be used with patterns. You configure a
> pattern in your configuration, then you tell nsd via nsd-control
> addzone to use a specific pattern for a specific zone. nsd keeps
> track of these assignments in a file usually in
> "/var/lib/nsd/zone.list" (configurable via "zonelistfile").
> 
> Zones can be added/removed pretty dynamically that way. What nsd does
> internally when receiving the addzone/delzone I haven't cared about
> so far.

I'm not yet familiar with these patterns and the manpage is only
comprehensible when you already understand it ;-) Anyway, I just tried a
"nsd-control reconfig" and that rereads the zone file into memory.

But I'll have a look at it tomorrow. It's time for a beer over here :-)

> On the config in general:
> "server-count" should be set to the number of CPUs of the respective
> machine. And, if you have this set to more than 1 and run it on
> Linux, you might also want to consider setting "reuseport" to "yes".
> I have more experience with this option from a high performance
> unbound system, but activating this option helped improve performance
> by a margin of 30-40%. I think it has a similar impact on nsd when a
> high amount of requests has to be served.

This is a low level system with only a few hundred domains. I think one
CPU will be sufficient.

Thnx for your reply,

R.

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richard lucassen
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