I don't think I'm "guru", but you're right. But many ISPs don't even enable access to their DNS servers from outside. What to do? AFAIK best is to set up caching name server yourself, using djbdns-localcache. It is quite simple to do this, if you're interested I write more about this whe I come to home.
Juraj On Wed, 6 Mar 2002, Thomas Michalka wrote: > Theo Schmidt wrote: > > > Thanks also to all of you having helped me with this problem, > > especially Thomas who also found the solution: > > "MODIFY_RESOLV_CONF_DYNAMICALLY" in the main system configuration > > file must be set to =no and the provider's dns numbers put into > > /etc/resolv.conf in some other manner than dynamically by pppd, which > > is the way my SuSE 7.3 was set up. I assume this means that I cannot > > now use another provider unless I change the dns numbers first > > manually. > > Your presumption isn't right. Of course your machine can ask any DNS-Server > to resolve a name. > I don't know enough about DNS to recommend to use your ISP's DNS-Servers > or to use anyone others. > Perhaps it's a question of fairness to use your ISP's DNS-Servers in order > to avoid too much network traffic? > It would be quite nice if a "network guru" could tell us something about it. > > > I look forward to exploring wwwoffle's capabilities now! > > Have much fun with it! > >
