[SunHELP] SS20 as DNS server

[The Archimage]

You will be fine with the SS20.  Xerox ran their 80,000 user's network
though an SS20-based firewall for years.  It did gigs of traffic a day.

canderso at TTACS.TTU.EDU wrote:
> 
> Hello, I am about to piece together a small office LAN and server farm.
> Total of about 20 workstations and less than 8 servers. Internet access
> via a DS3. We are trying to cut costs wherever possible, but I am
> concenered about some performance issues. Would it be wise to run our
> primary DNS and primary mail server on a SS20/SM71? We don't expect to
> handle more than 1,000 messages per day, though the DNS server will also
> be used as a caching DNS server for the LAN. Would latencies be improved
> much by going to an Ultra 1 or do you feel a SS20 would be more than
> enough machine? Also, what is the recommended version of Solaris for a
> headless SS20? 7? 8? The machine will probably have 128 or more MB ram and
> plenty of disk space.
> 
> I have some Ultra 1 hardware questions but will address them in another
> message.
> 
> Thanks in advance!
> 
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