From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 7 8:19:59 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail1.bellatlantic.net (mail1.bellatlantic.net [199.45.32.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D443437B4EC for ; Wed, 7 Feb 2001 08:19:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from helix (adsl-207-68-49-34.bellatlantic.net [207.68.49.34]) by mail1.bellatlantic.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id LAA14550; Wed, 7 Feb 2001 11:19:45 -0500 (EST) From: "Adam Crosby" To: "Greg MATTHEWS" Cc: "freebsd-questions" Subject: RE: dns lookup with ppp -nat Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2001 11:32:36 -0500 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 In-Reply-To: <5815.981542870@cs.ucl.ac.uk> Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Not slower to run a caching server, slower to just forward the lookup requests. I don't run a caching server..I just had the NAT box forwarding the connection. Although it wasn't too bad on DSL, DNS took a bit to long when our line got busy with stuff (like 128k mp3 streams ;) ). -Adam -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Greg MATTHEWS Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2001 5:48 AM To: Adam Crosby Cc: Greg MATTHEWS; freebsd-questions Subject: Re: dns lookup with ppp -nat yes i am considering this altho the dns servers are often different between logins. i guess i can lock my configs down to one or two of my isp dns servers but then i'm at their mercy if they decide to change things around. my other thought was to set up a caching server at home but that is slower you say? GREG To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message