Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 14:48:18 -0600 From: "Mike Meyer" <mwm-dated-1008794898.0771b2@mired.org> To: "Anthony Atkielski" <anthony@freebie.atkielski.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /etc/hosts vs. DNS for local-only machines Message-ID: <15386.26002.700069.649163@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <124030977@toto.iv>
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Anthony Atkielski <anthony@freebie.atkielski.com> types: > What I've done thus far is set up my own nameserver as the authoritative > server for my external domain (even though it's not), and then define > everything in my own zone files. Since no server queries my server from the > outside, and since both of my own machines query my server first, this > should work, and it appears to work okay. The DNS lookups are extremely > fast once an address is in cache, compared to the slowness of my ISP's > nameservers. I've been doing this for over a year, and have had no problem with it, except for DHCP boots that use the ISP-provided name server information instead of my own. My ISPs name servers are so blasted slow and unreliable I eventually stopped forwarding to them, and just did the lookups directly. <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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