From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 5 20:44:48 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 447F315437 for ; Sun, 5 Sep 1999 20:43:49 -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 11NoO5-0004qr-00; Mon, 06 Sep 1999 03:20:05 +0100 Received: (from ben) by lithium.scientia.demon.co.uk (Exim 3.032 #1) id 11NoO3-0003mD-00; Mon, 06 Sep 1999 03:20:03 +0100 Date: Mon, 6 Sep 1999 03:20:03 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst To: Doug Cc: chris@tourneyland.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Hoping to configure DNS Message-ID: <19990906032003.A14483@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> <19990905231258.B13099@lithium.scientia.demon.co.uk> <37D300E1.DF34C977@gorean.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.6i In-Reply-To: <37D300E1.DF34C977@gorean.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Doug wrote: > This is one of the reasons I asked. Unless your ISP's nameserver is > significantly hosed it's just as fast to use theirs, and you get the > additional benefit of A) not duplicating DNS traffic and B) all of the > additional cache in their nameserver from all of their other clients. Well, I use forwarding, so these two points don't apply to me, at least. Since a nameserver for the local network hostnames seems like a good idea to me (and I see you didn't disagree with this point), it makes sense to use that nameserver as a caching nameserver for remote addresses as well, I can't see it making things any worse. Maybe for a standalone machine there would be no point. > It's extremely rare that a local caching nameserver actually speeds > anything up for an ISP customer, and even then it should be configured > with a "forwarders" directive, which is definitely beyond the realm of > simple setup. I'll have to disagree with it being beyond the scope of simple setup. All you need, surely, is: forward first; forwarders { 1.2.3.4; 5.6.7.8; }; Seems fairly simple to me. :-) -- 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