On Tue, 2004-01-13 at 08:30, Magnus Hedemark wrote: > On Mon, 12 Jan 2004, Chris MacLeod wrote: > > > Kinda an odd question but are these boxes on Road Runner at home? > > > > I didn't see anywhere in your config where you listed your forwarders. > > You don't need forwarders. Especially not if you're on an ISP with > known spotty DNS service. Just set yourself up as a caching server and go > straight to authoritative sources, bypassing the RR servers. > > --Magnus
I don't think that is good advice. Admittedly this will give you better DNS service (if your ISP's sucks), but it also puts a bigger load on the root name servers. If every household by-passed their ISP DNS servers and used the root ones instead that would create a larger load on those servers than they are designed for. If that type of load continues to grow I wouldn't be surprised to see the root name servers limit access to only registered ISP's. DNS works great in a distributed model, and RoadRunners DNS is really good. I find that most of my hits against their DNS are already cached. Ben and his crew have done a lot over the past year to make all of RoadRunners services better. I recommend that you do use your ISP's DNS *and* that you cache your hits locally. That will give you a nice performance boost - even on a network with crappy DNS service. I whole-heartedly agree with Magnus (Chris) on the use of vi. Vi rocks! I wouldn't edit my Named files with any other editor :-) Good Luck - Jon Carnes -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
