From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 13 16:36:53 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D35F610656B1 for ; Mon, 13 Jul 2009 16:36:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jalmberg@identry.com) Received: from mx1.identry.com (on.identry.com [66.111.0.194]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 935568FC23 for ; Mon, 13 Jul 2009 16:36:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jalmberg@identry.com) Received: (qmail 58294 invoked by uid 89); 13 Jul 2009 16:37:12 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.1.110?) (jalmberg@75.127.142.66) by mx1.identry.com with ESMTPA; 13 Jul 2009 16:37:12 -0000 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v753.1) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <8195A2D9-F7AC-49F8-969E-A13EDFA3C05A@identry.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: John Almberg Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2009 12:36:42 -0400 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.753.1) Subject: Should DNS be on same server as webserver? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2009 16:36:56 -0000 The other day, a FreeBSD 'expert' told me that it is important to have the DNS server for a domain on the same server as the domain's web server. Supposedly, this saves doing tons of DNS look ups over the network. Instead, they are done locally. This makes sense to me, but I wonder if the performance difference is really that significant? -- John