From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 14 12:48:22 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-31-201-166.mmcable.com [65.31.201.166]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6C17437B41A for ; Fri, 14 Dec 2001 12:48:19 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 92479 invoked by uid 100); 14 Dec 2001 20:48:18 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15386.26002.700069.649163@guru.mired.org> Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 14:48:18 -0600 To: "Anthony Atkielski" Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /etc/hosts vs. DNS for local-only machines In-Reply-To: <124030977@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA v0.42/Python 2.1.1 (freebsd4) From: "Mike Meyer" 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 Anthony Atkielski types: > What I've done thus far is set up my own nameserver as the authoritative > server for my external domain (even though it's not), and then define > everything in my own zone files. Since no server queries my server from the > outside, and since both of my own machines query my server first, this > should work, and it appears to work okay. The DNS lookups are extremely > fast once an address is in cache, compared to the slowness of my ISP's > nameservers. I've been doing this for over a year, and have had no problem with it, except for DHCP boots that use the ISP-provided name server information instead of my own. My ISPs name servers are so blasted slow and unreliable I eventually stopped forwarding to them, and just did the lookups directly. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message