From owner-freebsd-newbies Thu Aug 2 17:22:25 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from lucifer.fuzion.za.org (pta-dial-196-31-186-67.mweb.co.za [196.31.186.67]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A74137B401 for ; Thu, 2 Aug 2001 17:22:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from psyv@sec-it.net) Received: from localhost (psyv@localhost) by lucifer.fuzion.za.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f730O4O03774; Fri, 3 Aug 2001 02:24:07 +0200 (SAST) (envelope-from psyv@sec-it.net) X-Authentication-Warning: lucifer.fuzion.za.org: psyv owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2001 02:24:01 +0200 (SAST) From: The Psychotic Viper X-Sender: psyv@lucifer.fuzion.za.org To: Jon Cheng Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Setting up a DNS server In-Reply-To: <01a101c11b8d$c141d3e0$0200a8c0@joncheng> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi, On Thu, 2 Aug 2001, Jon Cheng wrote: > > Jacob, so if I switch to cable service, in which I get a static ip, then it > would be sufficient? > > thanks, > -jon Ill reply to both posts in one, you can run a caching DNS server for your internal LAN to save on requests (read more in the various BIND/DNS related documentation) but to put it simply to run DNS for domain records you would need a static IP.So yes the static cable would work, leased DSL would not. hth PsyV To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message