Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 09:05:30 -0500 From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au> Cc: Arcady Genkin <antipode@thpoon.com>, freebsd-chat <freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Hosting my own domain. Message-ID: <15098.41002.301273.568368@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <20010510235758.N26132@welearn.com.au> 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> <20010510235758.N26132@welearn.com.au>
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Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au> types: > On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 08:44:13AM -0500, Mike Meyer wrote: > > 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. If you actually do the calculation, I'd be interested in the results. I never bothered to figure out if the zone transfers were more bytes than the queries would have been. I knew they were fixed at a fraction of a percent of the cap, which made them neglible. Handling DNS queries myself wouldn't be predictable, and I figured that other usage being high would mean the DNS queries would be high as well. That meant they would contribute the most when it would cost me the most, and that was the situation I was avoiding. <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> 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
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