You must have missed the earlier email by Joey. He was talking about running a DNS server.
-- 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 Nicholas Istre wrote: > 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 >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > General at brlug.net > http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net
