Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2005 12:51:07 -0400 From: "J. T. Farmer" <jfarmer@goldsword.com> To: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Hosts/dns contention in FBSD 5.4 Message-ID: <4344047B.9040907@goldsword.com> In-Reply-To: <200510051135.35932.malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> References: <200510050050.26723.malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> <A8A8B9D2-0248-4C6D-8932-5EB9E2ADDC10@segpub.com.au> <200510051135.35932.malcolm.kay@internode.on.net>
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Malcolm Kay wrote:
>On Wed, 5 Oct 2005 11:06 am, Jeremy Bogan wrote:
>
>
>>You could try running a caching DNS server locally, DjbDNS is
>>simple to setup and get going.
>>
>Yes, I have thought that maybe a local simple caching dns
>server would help; and if I can't otherwise fix the problem
>I'll give it a go. And I appreciate your suggestion of
>DjbDNS.
>
>It does seem however that this should not be necessary.
>
>
It is necessary when you have multiple machines and you take away
the connection to their DNS.
So, you have a couple of choices. the first is to setup each machine
such that it refers to it's local files first, then looks for the remote DNS
or you setup a local caching server. Personally, I would go for the
second choice. A local server can be responsible for DNS for all
local machines (including itself) as well as referring & caching external
lookups. this makes life a lot simpler for configuring the other
computers.
John
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John T. Farmer Owner & CTO GoldSword Systems
jfarmer@goldsword.com 865-691-6498 Knoxville TN
Consulting, Design, & Development of Networks & Software
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