From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 5 18:44:45 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EEFFF14D5E for ; Sun, 5 Sep 1999 18:44:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from lithium.scientia.demon.co.uk ([192.168.0.3] ident=exim) by scientia.demon.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.032 #1) id 11NkWx-0004Nu-00; Sun, 05 Sep 1999 23:12:59 +0100 Received: (from ben) by lithium.scientia.demon.co.uk (Exim 3.032 #1) id 11NkWw-0003Vu-00; Sun, 05 Sep 1999 23:12:58 +0100 Date: Sun, 5 Sep 1999 23:12:58 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst To: Doug Cc: chris@tourneyland.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Hoping to configure DNS Message-ID: <19990905231258.B13099@lithium.scientia.demon.co.uk> References: <3.0.6.32.19990905012435.00825420@mail.9netave.net> <3.0.6.32.19990905135342.007de600@mail.9netave.net> <37D2DE68.9E76E121@gorean.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.6i In-Reply-To: <37D2DE68.9E76E121@gorean.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. I found it quite easy to get BIND running for my local network, without the book. I'd probably get the book for anything bigger than my home network though, or if my nameserver was listed as the authoritative nameserver for a domain, or something. -- Ben Smithurst | PGP: 0x99392F7D ben@scientia.demon.co.uk | key available from keyservers and | ben+pgp@scientia.demon.co.uk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message