[expert] DNS settings
I have 4 boxes on my home network. A WinXP box, a Mac OS X box, Mandrake Linux workstation and a FreeBSD workstation. Earthlink is my ISP and they have 3 DNS servers. I want to set my Linux and FreeBSD boxes up as local DNS servers so I figured I would just add their IPs to the list of nameservers bringing that up to a total of 5 nameservers that OS X or XP could resolve to. Then someone told me most resolvers only check the first 3 entries anyway. Does anyone know if this is true or not? Thanks. Behind every good computer -- is a jumble of wires 'n stuff. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] DNS settings
yes, I believe that its true,,, if you want to speed up DNS lookups, you need something like dnscache There are mandrake rpms for DNScache available. rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of NDPTAL85 Sent: Saturday, 8 December 2001 6:48 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] DNS settings I have 4 boxes on my home network. A WinXP box, a Mac OS X box, Mandrake Linux workstation and a FreeBSD workstation. Earthlink is my ISP and they have 3 DNS servers. I want to set my Linux and FreeBSD boxes up as local DNS servers so I figured I would just add their IPs to the list of nameservers bringing that up to a total of 5 nameservers that OS X or XP could resolve to. Then someone told me most resolvers only check the first 3 entries anyway. Does anyone know if this is true or not? Thanks. Behind every good computer -- is a jumble of wires 'n stuff. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] DNS settings
On Friday 07 December 2001 16:48, you wrote: > I have 4 boxes on my home network. A WinXP box, a Mac OS X box, Mandrake > Linux workstation and a FreeBSD workstation. Earthlink is my ISP and > they have 3 DNS servers. I want to set my Linux and FreeBSD boxes up as > local DNS servers so I figured I would just add their IPs to the list of > nameservers bringing that up to a total of 5 nameservers that OS X or XP > could resolve to. Then someone told me most resolvers only check the > first 3 entries anyway. Does anyone know if this is true or not? Thanks. > It will only got to the second DNS server if it cannot find the entry in the first, or if the first fails. And if the second DNS server fails, the third, etc, etc. Most likely it will time out by the time it reaches the 3rd or 4th.Your best bet is to configure one DNS server on one of your boxes for your network, make it the primary DNS for all of your boxes, and set your ISPs primary and secondary as your secondary and terchiary. 3 DNS servers are going to give you good failover, and having two on an internal network with only 4 computers is a bit of overkill, as is having 5 total DNS servers. A caching nameserver may be what you are looking for -- Live fast, die young, you're sucking up my bandwidth. -- J.P. Pasnak, CD [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.warpedsystems.sk.ca Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] DNS settings
"J.P. Pasnak" wrote: > > 3 DNS servers are going to give you good failover, and having two on an > internal network with only 4 computers is a bit of overkill, as is having 5 > total DNS servers. Once finished the setup, fire up draknet and click "Next"... nothing else... then have a look at your /etc/resolv.conf... Sorry Francois; couldn't resist... :^) I noticed your "test" message... thanks. Pierre Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
