From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 5 16:54:53 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from goblin.apana.org.au (goblin.apana.org.au [203.3.126.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 960131540D for ; Sun, 5 Sep 1999 16:54:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by goblin.apana.org.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA19355; Mon, 6 Sep 1999 10:14:13 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au) Received: from jdy.apana.org.au(203.3.126.133), claiming to be "jdy" via SMTP by goblin.apana.org.au, id smtpdY19353; Mon Sep 6 10:14:03 1999 Message-ID: <056c01bef7fa$8d96af60$857e03cb@jdy> From: "Doug Young" To: "Doug" Cc: Subject: Re: Hoping to configure DNS Date: Mon, 6 Sep 1999 09:58:28 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.1 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Does this mean what I think it means, at least for those without HEAPS of experience ..... ie DON'T mess with local DNS stuff ?? -----Original Message----- From: Doug To: Ben Smithurst Cc: chris@tourneyland.com ; freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Monday, September 06, 1999 9:49 AM Subject: Re: Hoping to configure DNS >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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message