Yeah thats what I figured too. I guess since the Unix/linux admin is 
used to seeing Sun prices he went overkill heh

Adam Maloney wrote:

> On Fri, 18 Feb 2005, Adam wrote:
>
>> Well dns was being run on a bunch of dell blades also doing inbound MX.
>> there are 4 of these machines doing DNS from what i've gathered. 2x 
>> for non-static ips and 2x for static ip customers. Around 30,000 in 
>> total.
>
>
> That does seem rather overkill - 3M requests/day is about 30 
> requests/second.  I would think 1 of those boxes in single-proc mode 
> would handle it fine.
>
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