From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 30 16:44:45 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA02334 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 30 Jan 1998 16:44:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA02300 for ; Fri, 30 Jan 1998 16:44:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id QAA02885; Fri, 30 Jan 1998 16:44:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Fri, 30 Jan 1998 16:44:28 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Don Croyle cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: keeping DNS lookups local In-Reply-To: <863ei62w8b.fsf@emerson.gelemna.ft-wayne.in.us> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG X-To-Unsubscribe: mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org "unsubscribe questions" On 30 Jan 1998, Don Croyle wrote: > 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? If those are the addresses that are trying to go out the wire, yess, it'll save the dialouts. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major