Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 23:15:42 -0400 From: "Matthew Emmerton" <matt@gsicomp.on.ca> To: "Charles Pelletier" <fozekizer@attbi.com>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: dns server Message-ID: <005901c25b9d$033d3050$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> References: <001401c25b9a$eeb27840$32040101@hume>
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> curious: > what advantage is there in building my own dns server over just setting > static IP's for my internal network? do the advantages really only exist for > larger networks (my internal home network consists of only 3 computers other > than the gateway)? > --charlie pelletier > --litmus(mp3.com/litmus) It really depends on what purposes your 3 computers are used for. If they're all just Windows machines that you use to surf the net, then you don't really need an internal DNS. However, if some of your internal machines are servers (running FreeBSD, of course), then it may be useful to have an internal DNS. For example, let's take the case of my home network. I have 5 computers behind my FreeBSD gateway/firewall machine. 3 are Windows PCs used to surf and do email; the other two are FreeBSD servers. Both of these two servers are web servers where I develop web sites and web-enabled database applications. Having an internal DNS allows me to assign "real" names to these sites so I can surf to them with my Windows PC, instead of surfing to the IP address and then choosing which site I wanted to access on that server. -- Matt Emmerton To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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