Dmitry Pryanishnikov wrote: > Hello! > > On Sat, 8 Apr 2006, Ulrich Spoerlein wrote: > >Good idea, but this defeates the hierarchical purpose of DNS. Now my > >caching DNS is always querying the root DNS servers. > > Sorry, but what kind of hierarchy does it defeat? If client's query > can't be satisfied from provider's DNS cache, and doesn't refer to > domain which is hosted on ISP, then provider's DNS server will make > first query to root DNS server, and then will walk down domain hierarchy > (e.g. .ua -> .dp.ua -> atlantis.dp.ua). So setting client's DNS to directly > query root servers defeats just the provider's DNS cache.
Exactly. Since I have the honour to use a dialup connection regularly, I'd rather have a forwarding-only DNS server, since that will cut down the number of DNS packets on the dialup-link tremendously. The dhclient/named hacks are all very nice, but additionally I'll need the same in ppp.linkup. > >And there might be ISPs who disallow outgoing DNS connections to > >somewhere else than their own DNS servers. > > Not us ;) Lucky you, but I'd rather go the local route, since this should always work and be faster (provided the "ISP"'s named is not overloaded) Ulrich Spoerlein -- PGP Key ID: 20FEE9DD Encrypted mail welcome! Fingerprint: AEC9 AF5E 01AC 4EE1 8F70 6CBD E76E 2227 20FE E9DD Which is worse: ignorance or apathy? Don't know. Don't care.
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