From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon May 5 17:54:46 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA02695 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 5 May 1997 17:54:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from punt-1.mail.demon.net (relay-7.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id RAA02690 for ; Mon, 5 May 1997 17:54:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from awfulhak.demon.co.uk ([158.152.17.1]) by punt-1.mail.demon.net id aa0604620; 6 May 97 1:53 BST Received: from awfulhak.demon.co.uk (localhost.lan.awfulhak.org [127.0.0.1]) by awfulhak.demon.co.uk (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id AAA27107; Tue, 6 May 1997 00:55:49 +0100 (BST) Message-Id: <199705052355.AAA27107@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.9 8/22/96 To: Joerg Wunsch cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Marko Schuetz Subject: Re: bind before hosts and iijppp... In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 05 May 1997 22:11:50 +0200." <19970505221150.DH03755@uriah.heep.sax.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 06 May 1997 00:55:49 +0100 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Sysinstall should offer setting up a local caching DNS server anyway, > this can be done within 10 seconds, at the cost of a few hundred KB of > RAM. If you're PPP connected, it's wise to also mirror the forward > and reverse zones of your own domain. Arrrgh, not always ;O My domain is a full class B :I, but I do host a "dumb" DNS to save a little on line traffic (and to play of course). I agree that something should be set up by default, maybe with a commented out example of how to be secondary for say freebsd.org. [.....] > -- > cheers, J"org > > joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE > Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-) -- Brian , Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....