On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 10:18:19PM +0200, Thomas Pfaff wrote:
> > > I've no idea what the name servers are supposed to be, so I
> > > just started a local one and pointed /etc/resolv.conf at it;
> >
> > not very nice, better find out what the actual nameservers are. I
> > believe ppp has some way to tell the client, see the ppp man page.
>
> I'm probably missing something obvious here, but can someone
> enlighten me as to why running a local (recursive) name server
> is "not very nice"?
Caching only reduces load on the DNS system if the caches get used a
lot. Lots of caches that are virtually unused increase the load.
Imagine every laptop owner would do this, and the resulting load of
root and other authorative namerservers.
-Otto
