From owner-freebsd-chat Thu May 10 6:58: 1 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from phoenix.welearn.com.au (unknown [139.130.44.81]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4241237B424 for ; Thu, 10 May 2001 06:57:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sue@phoenix.welearn.com.au) Received: (from sue@localhost) by phoenix.welearn.com.au (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f4ADvwA48319; Thu, 10 May 2001 23:57:58 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from sue) Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 23:57:58 +1000 From: Sue Blake To: Mike Meyer Cc: Arcady Genkin , freebsd-chat Subject: Re: Hosting my own domain. Message-ID: <20010510235758.N26132@welearn.com.au> Mail-Followup-To: Sue Blake , Mike Meyer , Arcady Genkin , freebsd-chat 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> <15098.39725.503828.863922@guru.mired.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <15098.39725.503828.863922@guru.mired.org>; from mwm@mired.org on Thu, May 10, 2001 at 08:44:13AM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 08:44:13AM -0500, Mike Meyer wrote: > 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. 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*- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message