On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 12:55:42AM +0100, Russell Coker wrote: > On Tue, 19 Nov 2002 23:27, jernej horvat wrote: > > On Tuesday 19 November 2002 23:14, Donovan Baarda wrote: > > > I am successfuly using pdnsd for DNS caching on; a small network (4 hosts > > > + 2 dialins) > > > > Bigger systems can't afford to change or experiment with sw. > > > > OTOH it would also help if clients would have dns cache servers on their > > side. I know that Windows XP has dns cache built in and i think Steve > > Gibson is working for a client for all Windows platforms (www.grc.com). > > As applications always seem to cache DNS in one way or another I'm not sure > that a per-workstation cache will help that much. Applications that only > lookup a few servers (such as email clients) tend to just look them up once > per session. Applications that do lots of lookups (web log analysis and > Squid) have their own caches.
>From an ISP point of view, "client" often means the small buisness network the client has that connects to your network. In this case, a single DNS cache for their network makes sense. In my experience pdnsd is a good solution for this. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ABO: finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for more info, including pgp key ----------------------------------------------------------------------
