RE: metainfo and DNS question

Eric Cowperthwaite ( eric@valleynetworking.com )
Sun, 3 May 1998 08:23:54 -0700

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Well,

initially we used Microsoft DNS service. When that became troublesome
we switched to metainfo 2.x. That was immediately troublesome,
which is when we switched to Bind. I don't really know anything about
metainfo 3.x. I know that Bind if very stable and many people besides
myself recommend it.

Eric Cowperthwaite
Intellinet, Inc.
Sys Engineer

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From: Preston Korn[SMTP:preston@jaycreek.com]
Sent: Saturday, May 02, 1998 12:45 PM
To: ntisp@emerald.iea.com
Subject: RE: metainfo and DNS question

We just upgraded to metainfo's 3.x and it seems to have fixed the problem.
Should I look into Bind for NT still however? Has anyone had these or
other problems with metainfo's 3.x? Anyone have the url for Bind?

Preston

PS. Thanks for all the input. Now I understand what went wrong.

At 03:16 PM 5/1/98 -0700, you wrote:
>We also use Bind for NT, have been very happy with it, never have any DNS
>probs. It is stable and fast. Essentially once Bind was up it became
>extremely
>low maintenance, low worries.
>
>Eric Cowperthwaite
>Intellinet, Inc.
>Sys Engineer
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Bill Fisher [mailto:Bill@ExcelSoft.com]
>Sent: Friday, May 01, 1998 2:37 PM
>To: ntisp@emerald.iea.com
>Subject: RE: metainfo and DNS question
>
>
>Same here. The switch to Bind was very easy and now our DNS service is
>100% better. We had about 80 domains and 2 DNS servers when Metainfo
>started choking. Our web stats would never complete the reverse DNS
>lookup with Metainfo, now on Bind it flies through too.
>
>Bill Fisher
>ExcelSoft
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Jeff [mailto:nblade@inficad.com]
>Sent: Friday, May 01, 1998 7:27 AM
>To: ntisp@emerald.iea.com
>Subject: Re: metainfo and dns question
>
>
>When I worked for Firstinter.net , we also had problems with Metainfo's
>DNS
>server. We ended up changing over to the Bind port for WinNT. Not only did
>it seem to be less of a burden on the CPU, it also seem not hang or stop
>working during high volume times.
>
>At 01:09 PM 5/1/98 -0600, you wrote:
>>We ran into this too under metainfo 2.X. We upgraded to the lastest
>>builds with not much better results. The problem seem to arise when we
>>hit a certain level of domains. We solved the problem two ways. First
>>we converted our primary servers to Linux running bind 8 and then later
>>upgraded our secondaries to metainfo 3.x (which is bind 8). Now all are
>>happy. The upgrade from 2.x to 3.x was $149.00. It was well worth it.
>>
>>Hope this helps
>>
>>Steve Spesard
>>
>>Preston Korn wrote:
>>
>>> I am having a problem with the metainfo dns server getting shut down
>>> about
>>> every 20 minutes or so. Has anyone experienced this? Any idea what's
>>>
>>> causing this?
>>>
>>> Preston
>>> preston@jaycreek.com
>>>
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