Bind 8 on AIX 5.1

From: Yard, John (jyard@AIS.UCLA.EDU)
Date: Thu Sep 04 2003 - 18:10:34 EDT


     I am running named 8.2.2-P5 on an AIX
5.1 machine. The interface is gigabit ethernet;
Performance seems good. I was wondering if anyone had any performance
suggestions for DNS. My no -a output is :

xtendednetstats = 0
                  thewall = 524240
               sockthresh = 85
                   sb_max = 1048576
                somaxconn = 1024
      clean_partial_conns = 0
        net_malloc_police = 0
                  rto_low = 1
                 rto_high = 64
                rto_limit = 7
               rto_length = 13
          inet_stack_size = 16
              arptab_bsiz = 7
                arptab_nb = 25
               tcp_ndebug = 100
                   ifsize = 8
                 arpqsize = 12
                 ndpqsize = 50
             route_expire = 1
       send_file_duration = 300
                 fasttimo = 200
          routerevalidate = 0
         dgd_packets_lost = 3
           dgd_retry_time = 5
            dgd_ping_time = 5
              passive_dgd = 0
                  sodebug = 0
                nbc_limit = 393168
            nbc_max_cache = 131072
            nbc_min_cache = 1
                 nbc_pseg = 0
           nbc_pseg_limit = 524240
                 strmsgsz = 0
                 strctlsz = 1024
                 nstrpush = 8
                strthresh = 85
                psetimers = 20
              psebufcalls = 20
               strturncnt = 15
             pseintrstack = 12288
                lowthresh = 90
                medthresh = 95
                 psecache = 1
          subnetsarelocal = 1
                   maxttl = 255
                ipfragttl = 60
          ipsendredirects = 1
             ipforwarding = 0
                  udp_ttl = 30
                  tcp_ttl = 60
               arpt_killc = 20
            tcp_sendspace = 131072
            tcp_recvspace = 131072
            udp_sendspace = 65536
            udp_recvspace = 65536
       tcp_bad_port_limit = 0
       udp_bad_port_limit = 0
           rfc1122addrchk = 0
           nonlocsrcroute = 0
            tcp_keepintvl = 150
             tcp_keepidle = 14400
                bcastping = 0
                 udpcksum = 1
              tcp_mssdflt = 512
          icmpaddressmask = 0
             tcp_keepinit = 150
ie5_old_multicast_mapping = 0
                  rfc1323 = 1
         pmtu_default_age = 10
 pmtu_rediscover_interval = 30
        udp_pmtu_discover = 1
        tcp_pmtu_discover = 1
                ipqmaxlen = 100
       directed_broadcast = 0
        ipignoreredirects = 0
  ipsrcroutesend = 1
           ipsrcrouterecv = 0
        ipsrcrouteforward = 1
       ip6srcrouteforward = 1
               ip6_defttl = 64
                ndpt_keep = 120
           ndpt_reachable = 30
             ndpt_retrans = 1
               ndpt_probe = 5
                ndpt_down = 3
            ndp_umaxtries = 3
            ndp_mmaxtries = 3
                ip6_prune = 2
            ip6forwarding = 0
              multi_homed = 1
                 main_if6 = 0
               main_site6 = 0
              site6_index = 0
                 maxnip6q = 20
          llsleep_timeout = 3
             tcp_timewait = 1
        tcp_ephemeral_low = 32768
       tcp_ephemeral_high = 65535
        udp_ephemeral_low = 32768
       udp_ephemeral_high = 65535
                 delayack = 0
            delayackports = {}
                     sack = 0
                 use_isno = 1
              tcp_newreno = 1
          tcp_nagle_limit = 65535
                  rfc2414 = 0
          tcp_init_window = 0
                  tcp_ecn = 0
     tcp_limited_transmit = 1
        icmp6_errmsg_rate = 10
             tcp_maxburst = 0
           tcp_nodelayack = 0
             tcp_finwait2 = 1200

The interface bind uses looks like:

[viper2:/workarea] # lsattr -E -l en2
mtu 1500 Maximum IP Packet Size for This
Device True
remmtu 576 Maximum IP Packet Size for
REMOTE Networks True
netaddr 164.67.134.5 Internet Address
True
state up Current Interface Status
True
arp on Address Resolution Protocol
(ARP) True
netmask 255.255.255.0 Subnet Mask
True
security none Security Level
True
authority Authorized Users
True
broadcast Broadcast Address
True
netaddr6 N/A
True
alias6 N/A
True
prefixlen N/A
True
alias4 164.67.134.3,255.255.255.0 N/A
True
rfc1323 N/A
True
tcp_nodelay N/A
True
tcp_sendspace N/A
True
tcp_recvspace N/A
True
tcp_mssdflt

Thxs,

John Yard
UCLA



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