DNS & Botnet floods

Just to annoy indigo/dilt, i'll start off by stating it's been a wacky week!

The new DNS testing has completed and now pending final installation :)

It uses a tad (*cough* a lot more *cough*) RAM that we originally planned for:

PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND

5426 named 20 0 80120 45m 1852 S 1.0 18.4% 0:08.94 named

So ya, around 46MB of ram used - yikes!

With such a huge footprint on RAM, I'm now wondering if it's truely worth it to run our DNS like we plan. Granted, the other DNS server we have has 512 ram, 46MB of ram just for that still sounds steep - compared to the current 9MB footprint we're using.

Advantages: Resolve times will be much quicker as it doesn't need to contact the GeoDNS server to find out IRC IP's.

Downside: The increase in resouces could prove to be an issue, depending on how quickly we grow.

As for the botnet flood, we're needing hte module quickly and waiting on donations just wouldn't
work out. We've now purchased the module off my credit card where i'll probably end up having to ride it there for a bit.

With that being said, though, donations do help and it would be wonderful to be able to pay for that module full out!

Users wishing to donate even $1 to help with it, may do so by sending paypal funds to delta@deltaanime.net