From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Nov 2 9:18: 6 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC29937B401 for ; Sat, 2 Nov 2002 09:18:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from astarte.volker.de (pD900DF85.dip.t-dialin.net [217.0.223.133]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 22CB243E42 for ; Sat, 2 Nov 2002 09:17:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd@secspace.de) Received: from astarte.volker.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by astarte.volker.de (8.12.6/8.12.6) with SMTP id gA2HHf2T000428 for ; Sat, 2 Nov 2002 18:17:47 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from freebsd@secspace.de) Date: Sat, 2 Nov 2002 18:17:41 +0100 From: Volker Kindermann To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Resolving hostnames takes "forever" Message-Id: <20021102181741.273c6f15.freebsd@secspace.de> In-Reply-To: <1036250840.74419.67.camel@prometheus> References: <200211021432.19756.freebsd.nospam@mekanix.dk> <20021102144105.GA1116@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> <1036250840.74419.67.camel@prometheus> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.5claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.7) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Finally, would it be worth while to run my own DNS server? Will > setting it up be more trouble than it's worth? It depends. I'm running local dns-caches on most servers and of course on my gateway-machine. It's very easy to do this with djbdns. Just install the daemontools, then djbdns and configure your machine as a local cache (if it's standalone) or an external cache (if you serve a network). Instructions are on the webpage http://cr.yp.to Beleave me, it's as simple as installing something from ports and kills all your dns-Problems. You don't need to bother with bind and named.conf, etc. -volker To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message