From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 30 00:37:40 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA17561 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 30 Jan 1998 00:37:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from emerson.gelemna.ft-wayne.in.us (fw2-11.fwi.com [207.113.68.90]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA17556 for ; Fri, 30 Jan 1998 00:37:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from croyle@gelemna.ft-wayne.in.us) Received: (from croyle@localhost) by emerson.gelemna.ft-wayne.in.us (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA28055; Fri, 30 Jan 1998 03:37:46 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from croyle) To: Doug White Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: keeping DNS lookups local References: Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.108) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Don Croyle Date: 30 Jan 1998 03:37:40 -0500 Organization: Minimal at best In-Reply-To: Doug White's message of "Thu, 29 Jan 1998 21:54:23 -0800 (PST)" Message-ID: <863ei62w8b.fsf@emerson.gelemna.ft-wayne.in.us> Lines: 15 X-Mailer: Quassia Gnus v0.22/XEmacs 20.3 - "Vatican City" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG X-To-Unsubscribe: mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org "unsubscribe questions" Doug White writes: > Make sure you aren't running named, since it will override resolv.conf. I am running named, and am reluctant to give up the benefits of a local DNS cache. So from what you're telling me, having a resolv.conf is probably just wasting an inode. Would I accomplish anything by writing some zone files and declaring myself authoritative for my local subdomains and the chunk of network 10 that I'm playing with? -- I've always wanted to be a dilettante, | Usenet II -- because but I've never quite been ready to make | it's time for October the commitment. | http://www.usenet2.org