Date: Mon, 6 Sep 1999 09:58:28 +1000 From: "Doug Young" <dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au> To: "Doug" <Doug@gorean.org> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Hoping to configure DNS Message-ID: <056c01bef7fa$8d96af60$857e03cb@jdy>
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Does this mean what I think it means, at least for those without HEAPS of experience ..... ie DON'T mess with local DNS stuff ?? -----Original Message----- From: Doug <Doug@gorean.org> To: Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk> Cc: chris@tourneyland.com <chris@tourneyland.com>; freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Date: Monday, September 06, 1999 9:49 AM Subject: Re: Hoping to configure DNS >Ben Smithurst wrote: >> >> Doug wrote: >> >> > The fact that A) You failed to answer my question as to why you want a >> > nameserver in the first place, >> >> So that he can resolve hostnames? I'd rather run a nameserver than >> maintain /etc/hosts (yuk!) on multiple machines, and a local caching >> nameserver can speed up resolution of remote hostnames if they're used >> often. > > This is one of the reasons I asked. Unless your ISP's nameserver is >significantly hosed it's just as fast to use theirs, and you get the >additional benefit of A) not duplicating DNS traffic and B) all of the >additional cache in their nameserver from all of their other clients. It's >extremely rare that a local caching nameserver actually speeds anything up >for an ISP customer, and even then it should be configured with a >"forwarders" directive, which is definitely beyond the realm of simple >setup. > >Doug > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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