From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 5 16:48:24 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dt011n65.san.rr.com (dt010nb9.san.rr.com [204.210.12.185]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8731514CA2 for ; Sun, 5 Sep 1999 16:48:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Received: from gorean.org (master [10.0.0.2]) by dt011n65.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA85355; Sun, 5 Sep 1999 16:46:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Message-ID: <37D300E1.DF34C977@gorean.org> Date: Sun, 05 Sep 1999 16:46:41 -0700 From: Doug Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT-0904 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ben Smithurst Cc: chris@tourneyland.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Hoping to configure DNS References: <3.0.6.32.19990905012435.00825420@mail.9netave.net> <3.0.6.32.19990905135342.007de600@mail.9netave.net> <37D2DE68.9E76E121@gorean.org> <19990905231258.B13099@lithium.scientia.demon.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ben Smithurst wrote: > > Doug wrote: > > > The fact that A) You failed to answer my question as to why you want a > > nameserver in the first place, > > So that he can resolve hostnames? I'd rather run a nameserver than > maintain /etc/hosts (yuk!) on multiple machines, and a local caching > nameserver can speed up resolution of remote hostnames if they're used > often. This is one of the reasons I asked. Unless your ISP's nameserver is significantly hosed it's just as fast to use theirs, and you get the additional benefit of A) not duplicating DNS traffic and B) all of the additional cache in their nameserver from all of their other clients. It's extremely rare that a local caching nameserver actually speeds anything up for an ISP customer, and even then it should be configured with a "forwarders" directive, which is definitely beyond the realm of simple setup. Doug To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message