Date: Thu, 11 Jan 1996 14:02:40 -0500 (EST) From: steve hovey <shovey@buffnet.net> To: Nate Williams <nate@sri.mt.net> Cc: "Garrett A. Wollman" <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>, Nate Williams <nate@sri.mt.net>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: arrrgh, this was working Sunday... Message-ID: <Pine.SCO.3.91.960111140148.13486M-100000@buffnet5.buffnet.net> In-Reply-To: <199601111744.KAA21551@rocky.sri.MT.net>
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On Thu, 11 Jan 1996, Nate Williams wrote: > > >> A normally configured system /does/ run a nameserver, if only to cache > > >> the results of previous queries. > > > > > Hogwash. On my local network, is simply wasting memory and more > > > maintenance to run a namserver on all the machines > > > > It doesn't take any maintenance at all to run a nameserver on all the > > machines. > > I have to set them up to run, and when they die (which unfortunately > they do :( ) I have to go re-start them. It's much easier to point > everyone at the central site, so when it dies it's *very* obvious. > I just run a cron to check that named is running and start it up if it isnt, which it almost always is running anyways.
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