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Re: postfix performance
From: Joe <joe_at_nospam>Date: Thu Mar 24 2011 - 00:40:45 GMT
To: postfix-users@postfix.org
On 03/23/2011 05:22 PM, Steve Jenkins wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 5:09 PM, Joe<joe@tmsusa.com> wrote:
>> IMNSHO it's standard practice to run a dns server on the MX host. If you
>> don't want a full blown bind server, at least run some sort of caching dns
>> server; the difference in the lookup times has a big impact when you're
>> sending messages at a high rate.
> Thx, Joe. Any advantage IYNSHO to running a full blown bind server as
> opposed to something simpler like dnsmasq or nsd (or anything else
> you're recommend)?
Steve,
There are no advantages I can think of unless you're also running a dns
server for other hosts. Either one should be fine for the name
resolution needs of postfix. Since I'm familiar with bind I tend to just
go with it that whether we need a simple caching dns server or a full
blown multi-view view authoritative dns server. It works pretty well out
of the box on modern releases of unix-like OSes.
Joe