Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 23:57:58 +1000 From: Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au> To: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> Cc: Arcady Genkin <antipode@thpoon.com>, freebsd-chat <freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Hosting my own domain. Message-ID: <20010510235758.N26132@welearn.com.au> In-Reply-To: <15098.39725.503828.863922@guru.mired.org>; from mwm@mired.org on Thu, May 10, 2001 at 08:44:13AM -0500 References: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10105062258270.1151-100000@bilawal.cse.iitd.ernet.in> <15093.37891.477055.231085@guru.mired.org> <877kzpvg19.fsf@tea.thpoon.com> <15098.35413.109238.930161@guru.mired.org> <20010510233606.L26132@welearn.com.au> <15098.39725.503828.863922@guru.mired.org>
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On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 08:44:13AM -0500, Mike Meyer wrote:
> Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au> 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.
Now why didn't I think of that? I pay through the nose for each byte,
but I've never thought of DNS queries as being worth counting.
Maybe it's time to do some more calcs.
--
Regards,
-*Sue*-
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