From owner-freebsd-chat Thu May 10 5:32:24 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 100B937B423 for ; Thu, 10 May 2001 05:32:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 38232 invoked by uid 100); 10 May 2001 12:32:21 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15098.35413.109238.930161@guru.mired.org> Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 07:32:21 -0500 To: Arcady Genkin Cc: freebsd-chat Subject: Re: Hosting my own domain. In-Reply-To: <877kzpvg19.fsf@tea.thpoon.com> References: <15093.37891.477055.231085@guru.mired.org> <877kzpvg19.fsf@tea.thpoon.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Arcady Genkin types: > A month or so ago I read in comp.risks a message from a guy, who had a > home computer that was the primary DNS server for his domain. So he > wrote a message to some popular moderated mailing list. He claims > that once the moderator approved his message, and it started to go out > to all the subscribers, their mail servers started resolving his domain > name (which wasn't in anybody's cache), to the point that his Pentium > (or whatever) computer could not handle it and crashed a few times. > > Would anybody care to comment on this? Anyone running their own > primary DNS off a home computer on a cable modem/DSL line? I've done that, but I set things up so that I didn't get any DNS queries over the DSL line. My ISP ran secondaries from my primary, and I only listed my ISPs dns servers with the NIC. These days, there are better alternatives - check the list archives for a discussion of the issues. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message