On Dec 11, 2007 8:51 AM, Steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey everyone, > Recently I my ISP appears to have had a DNS outage and it got me > thinking, maybe I should run a DNS server here locally for the > computers on my own LAN. > Has anyone on the list tried doing it? If so what was your > experience. What hardware/software did you run. Did it end up > working well?
I tried it for a while way back when I had a spare server and was toying around with various things. I found that if my ISP had an issue with DNS, they probably had other issues too and it generally didn't allow me much advantage. That could of course be different for your ISP. I received the same advantage simply by choosing a couple free DNS servers as backups. You might try searching for something. My most significant observation, however, was that I had to maintain this 2nd server and keep it operational in order to use the Internet. That just took extra power and time and made one room a bit warmer. I didn't think the benefit was worth the cost. -Dennis PS, I played with bind mainly but tried djbDNS or something as well. Seems like they both worked fine. /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
