Date: Tue, 8 Oct 1996 08:25:59 -0400 (EDT) From: Robert Shady <rls@mail.id.net> To: jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com (Joe Greco) Cc: richard@pegasus.com, freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: redundant news systems Message-ID: <199610081225.IAA22514@server.id.net> In-Reply-To: <199610031638.LAA06994@brasil.moneng.mei.com> from Joe Greco at "Oct 3, 96 11:38:41 am"
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> > Everyone should be concerned with reducing network traffic.
> >
> > DNS is cached by everyone and everything, because although it seems
> > short and sweet, it's often slow. Loading down nameservers unnecessarily
> > makes matters worse.
> >
> > You and your systems aren't the only ones affected.
>
> Why would anybody else's systems be doing dozens of name lookups per
> second for my news server? They are not allowed to use my news server.
> Maybe they are just looking for a good time. In any case, why should I
> worry about it?
>
> Think about that for a bit and then get back to me, eh? :-)
Do you have some special way of telling your DNS server that your TTL for
news.mei.com is differrent than the TTL for ftp..mei.com, or the MX
record for mei.com??
-- Rob
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