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nsd a Name Service Daemon

nsd a Name Service Daemon. Alexis Yushin, Daniel Karrenberg, Olaf Kolkman, Ted Lindgreen with Erik Rozendaal, Jaap Akkerhuis, Miek Gieben, …. Presentation Outline. Why nsd ? What is nsd ? Who should use nsd ?. Why nsd?. Code Diversity Simplicity Performance Open Source. What is nsd?.

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nsd a Name Service Daemon

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  1. nsda Name Service Daemon Alexis Yushin, Daniel Karrenberg, Olaf Kolkman, Ted Lindgreen with Erik Rozendaal, Jaap Akkerhuis, Miek Gieben, …

  2. Presentation Outline Why nsd ? What is nsd ? Who should use nsd ?

  3. Why nsd? • Code Diversity • Simplicity • Performance • Open Source

  4. What is nsd? • Authoritative-Only DNS Name Server • No recursion • No caching • No dynamic update • No zone transfers • Implemented from Scratch • High Performance Design • DNSSec Ready • Well Tested

  5. bserved Loads Zone Files Basic nsd Design Zone Compiler Responses Queries Responses daemon Responses

  6. Performance Results

  7. Performance Results

  8. Performance Results

  9. Performance Results“Marketing Version”

  10. Goals Achieved ? • Code Diversity • Totally New Design • Bug Diversity • Simplicity • Daemon kept as small as possible (~1000 lines C) • No creeping featurism (total 5684 lines C) • Performance • See above • Open Source • Yes (BSD License)

  11. Who should use NSD? • Publishers of authoritative zone info • Root Servers (some) • TLD servers • … • Who should not use nsd • Recursing name servers • Servers really needing dynamic updates • nsd-1.0.1 is available. It is stable.

  12. Questions??? • Slides and other information (will be) available from http://www.ripe.net/ • Nsd-1.0.1: http://www.nlnetlabs.nl/ nsd/index.en.html

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