I've will agree with this whole heartedly. I've moved to using local dnscaches on most my smtp servers, and webservers that do DNSLookups with my network network dnscache acting as a root server for them. DNS traffic to and from my network has significantly dropped, along with request to my network caches. Just have to flush them every once in a while when I'm working on DNS.
<plug> Admittedly it took a little while for me to get used to djbdns, but with djbdns + VegaDNS(http://www.vegadns.org/) by Bill Shupp I spend very little time on DNS related requests/problems. The changeover from bind only took me 3 days, and everything has been up and running without trouble since. I've even been able to offload dns management for my colo clients through VegaDNS. </plug> .darrel. > -----Original Message----- > From: martin f krafft [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2004 12:11 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: nscd: Was Re: long delays with LDAP nss/pam > > also sprach Russell Coker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.10.28.1520 +0200]: > > Run named on localhost. > > What an extraordinarily bad advice, IMHO. BIND is too much a piece > of crap. > > I really suggest djbdns. I know, it's nonfree. But it's damn good. > > -- > Please do not send copies of list mail to me; I read the list! > > .''`. martin f. krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > : :' : proud Debian developer, admin, user, and author > `. `'` > `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing a system > > Invalid/expired PGP subkeys? Use subkeys.pgp.net as keyserver! > > -- > Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. > Checked by AVG Anti-Virus (http://www.grisoft.com). > Version: 7.0.269 / Virus Database: 264.12.4 - Release Date: 10/27/2004 > > -- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 7.0.269 / Virus Database: 264.12.4 - Release Date: 10/27/2004
