From owner-freebsd-chat Thu May 10 6:44:16 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 0D77A37B422 for ; Thu, 10 May 2001 06:44:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 40065 invoked by uid 100); 10 May 2001 13:44:13 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15098.39725.503828.863922@guru.mired.org> Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 08:44:13 -0500 To: Sue Blake Cc: Arcady Genkin , freebsd-chat Subject: Re: Hosting my own domain. In-Reply-To: <20010510233606.L26132@welearn.com.au> References: <15093.37891.477055.231085@guru.mired.org> <877kzpvg19.fsf@tea.thpoon.com> <15098.35413.109238.930161@guru.mired.org> <20010510233606.L26132@welearn.com.au> 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 Sue Blake types: > On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 07:32:21AM -0500, Mike Meyer wrote: > > > 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. [...] > It often amazes me that people who use a good OS expect so little of > their computers. My motivation wasn't because I expected problems with my computer. Nuts, I ran the distribution for what was - at the time - the sixth most popular web browser in the world off a 25MHz '030. DNS was running on a '486; there was no way it was going to collapse on me. I had that DNS setup because my ISP had a bandwidth cap, and usage charges if I went beyond it. DNS queries for my domains on their servers didn't count against the cap; queries to my servers did. I was just being cheapXXXXXX frugal. 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