From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 17 5: 5:54 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dire.bris.ac.uk (dire.bris.ac.uk [137.222.10.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B6D5D37B41D for ; Mon, 17 Dec 2001 05:05:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk by dire.bris.ac.uk with SMTP-PRIV with ESMTP; Mon, 17 Dec 2001 13:05:48 +0000 Received: from cmjg (helo=localhost) by mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk with local-esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 16FxS1-0002d6-00; Mon, 17 Dec 2001 13:05:01 +0000 Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 13:05:01 +0000 (GMT) From: Jan Grant X-X-Sender: To: Martin Karlsson Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: "private" DNS by-passing my ISPs? (Was: Re: /etc/hosts vs. DNS for local-only machines) In-Reply-To: <20011217134638.A4572@foo31-249.visit.se> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 On Mon, 17 Dec 2001, Martin Karlsson wrote: > 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? That depends. Good, innit? In this case, it depends on whether your ISP is filtering/intercepting DNS traffic. If they've got problems keeping their own DNS running, then that may be unlikely. You just need to set up a caching nameserver. This is, of course, providing that doing to doesn't violate your terms and conditions - which is unlikely: if that _is_ the case, then you may want to look at switching ISPs (_politely_ letting the last lot know why; feedback can only help). -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287088 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 RFC822 jan.grant@bris.ac.uk Axioms speak louder than words. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message