From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 13 20:15:49 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 505E037B400 for ; Fri, 13 Sep 2002 20:15:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tomts19-srv.bellnexxia.net (tomts19.bellnexxia.net [209.226.175.73]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6121C43E77 for ; Fri, 13 Sep 2002 20:15:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from matt@gsicomp.on.ca) Received: from xena.gsicomp.on.ca ([65.95.177.86]) by tomts19-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.04.19 201-253-122-122-119-20020516) with ESMTP id <20020914031542.EBOA6081.tomts19-srv.bellnexxia.net@xena.gsicomp.on.ca>; Fri, 13 Sep 2002 23:15:42 -0400 Received: from hermes (hermes.gsicomp.on.ca [192.168.0.18]) by xena.gsicomp.on.ca (8.11.3/8.11.3) with SMTP id g8E21rX94076; Fri, 13 Sep 2002 22:01:53 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from matt@gsicomp.on.ca) Message-ID: <005901c25b9d$033d3050$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> From: "Matthew Emmerton" To: "Charles Pelletier" , References: <001401c25b9a$eeb27840$32040101@hume> Subject: Re: dns server Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 23:15:42 -0400 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 5.50.4807.1700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4910.0300 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 > curious: > what advantage is there in building my own dns server over just setting > static IP's for my internal network? do the advantages really only exist for > larger networks (my internal home network consists of only 3 computers other > than the gateway)? > --charlie pelletier > --litmus(mp3.com/litmus) It really depends on what purposes your 3 computers are used for. If they're all just Windows machines that you use to surf the net, then you don't really need an internal DNS. However, if some of your internal machines are servers (running FreeBSD, of course), then it may be useful to have an internal DNS. For example, let's take the case of my home network. I have 5 computers behind my FreeBSD gateway/firewall machine. 3 are Windows PCs used to surf and do email; the other two are FreeBSD servers. Both of these two servers are web servers where I develop web sites and web-enabled database applications. Having an internal DNS allows me to assign "real" names to these sites so I can surf to them with my Windows PC, instead of surfing to the IP address and then choosing which site I wanted to access on that server. -- Matt Emmerton To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message