From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 17 4:47: 9 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from foo31-249.visit.se (foo31-249.visit.se [62.119.31.249]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 24B9337B419 for ; Mon, 17 Dec 2001 04:47:07 -0800 (PST) Received: by foo31-249.visit.se (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 325BBA891C; Mon, 17 Dec 2001 13:46:39 +0100 (CET) Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 13:46:38 +0100 From: Martin Karlsson To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: "private" DNS by-passing my ISPs? (Was: Re: /etc/hosts vs. DNS for local-only machines) Message-ID: <20011217134638.A4572@foo31-249.visit.se> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <124030977@toto.iv> <15386.26002.700069.649163@guru.mired.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <15386.26002.700069.649163@guru.mired.org>; from mwm-dated-1008794898.0771b2@mired.org on Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 02:48:18PM -0600 X-Editor: Vim http://www.vim.org/ 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 This may be a _very_ stupid question, but here goes: Is it possible for me to run my own DNS-server, which will "by-pass" my ISPs ditto? I understand that my "traffic" must go through my ISP, but must I use their DNS-servers (which are frequently down, thus not allowing me to "go" anywhere)? I've been studying DNS resources on the net for some time now, but I find the material hard to grasp, as I don't really know *what* I'm looking for. :-) There's no LAN here, just a stand-alone FreeBSD 4.4-RELEASE box connected via cable modem. -- Martin Karlsson To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message