I would personally consider DNS to be a rather necessary service... Unless you like referring to internet sites via ip addresses or maintain a huge hosts file on your machines... ;)
Now, it doesn't necessarily have to run on your computer, though... I haven't really heard anything outstanding about OpenDNS, but I do read a bit of positive feedback from people who suffer with ISPs with extremely poor DNS servers. Nick On Fri, September 21, 2007 10:08 am, Dustin Puryear wrote: > Joey- > > I would argue against this particular angle. It seems to me that it goes > under "running unnecessary services on your computer", which is already > a vice that Windows and most Linux distros have. Thoughts? > > -- > Puryear Information Technology, LLC > Baton Rouge, LA * 225-706-8414 > http://www.puryear-it.com > > Author, "Best Practices for Managing Linux and UNIX Servers" > http://www.puryear-it.com/pubs/linux-unix-best-practices > > Identity Management, LDAP, and Linux Integration > > > Joey Kelly wrote: >> On Wednesday 19 September 2007 17:20, Brad Bendily wrote: >>> I'm sure this has been covered before, but just curious if anyone is >>> using OpenDNS and >>> has any feedback? >>> >>> https://www.opendns.com/start >> >> "OpenDNS makes money the same way Google and Yahoo do ??? by showing >> relevant >> ads when we show you search results" >> >> Do what? >> >> Here's a better way: >> >> 1. apt-get install bind >> >> 2. Edit /etc/resolv.conf to list your box's IP as the first nameserver >> entry. >> >> 3. Be happy. >> >> Don't run Linux? No matter, install cygwin on your windows box and run >> BIND as >> a service. >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> General mailing list >> General at brlug.net >> http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > General at brlug.net > http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net >
