From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 11 11:00:19 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id LAA10799 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 11 Jan 1996 11:00:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from buffnet4.buffnet.net (root@buffnet4.buffnet.net [205.246.19.13]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA10789 for ; Thu, 11 Jan 1996 11:00:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from buffnet1.buffnet.net (mmdf@buffnet1.buffnet.net [205.246.19.10]) by buffnet4.buffnet.net (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id OAA15530 for ; Thu, 11 Jan 1996 14:02:33 -0500 Received: from buffnet5.buffnet.net by buffnet1.buffnet.net id aa20868; 11 Jan 96 14:02 EST Date: Thu, 11 Jan 1996 14:02:40 -0500 (EST) From: steve hovey To: Nate Williams cc: "Garrett A. Wollman" , Nate Williams , questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: arrrgh, this was working Sunday... In-Reply-To: <199601111744.KAA21551@rocky.sri.MT.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk 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.