Date: Mon, 6 Sep 1999 03:20:03 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk> To: Doug <Doug@gorean.org> Cc: chris@tourneyland.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Hoping to configure DNS Message-ID: <19990906032003.A14483@lithium.scientia.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <37D300E1.DF34C977@gorean.org> 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>
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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. :-)
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