From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 10 19:34:49 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA12490 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 10 Jul 1998 19:34:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cyclops.xtra.co.nz (cyclops.xtra.co.nz [202.27.184.96]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA12477 for ; Fri, 10 Jul 1998 19:34:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from junkmale@pop3.xtra.co.nz) Received: from wocker (210-55-210-87.ipnets.xtra.co.nz [210.55.210.87]) by cyclops.xtra.co.nz (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id OAA01923; Sat, 11 Jul 1998 14:34:04 +1200 (NZST) Message-Id: <199807110234.OAA01923@cyclops.xtra.co.nz> From: "Dan Langille" Organization: DVL Software Limited To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, djv@bedford.net Date: Sat, 11 Jul 1998 14:34:04 +1200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: Soft Updates? Mini-DNS? Reply-to: junkmale@xtra.co.nz In-reply-to: <199807101813.OAA20920@lucy.bedford.net> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.01b) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 10 Jul 98, at 14:13, CyberPeasant wrote: > b) "Mini-DNS"? Is this a particular flavor of BIND, or does > it mean "BIND" with wee zone files? As a newcomer to UNIX and FreeBSD, I've found that references to a mini- DNS refer to the use of DNS as a logical concept rather than a specific implemention of DNS or BIND. In my case, it refers to the DNS I run on my subnet (3 nodes). Basically, I define my nodes in my DNS. If the DNS can't find a name in it's files, it references my ISP's DNS. In effect, it is a caching DNS with a few hard-coded entries. For the example I used to set this up, see http://www.freebsd.org/tutorials/ppp/ppp30.html. -- Dan Langille DVL Software Limited http://www.dvl-software.com : for race timing solutions To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message