On 2009-04-27, Thomas Pfaff <tpf...@tp76.info> wrote: > >> > I've no idea what the name servers are supposed to be, so I >> > just started a local one and pointed /etc/resolv.conf at it; >> >> not very nice, better find out what the actual nameservers are. I >> believe ppp has some way to tell the client, see the ppp man page. > > I'm probably missing something obvious here, but can someone > enlighten me as to why running a local (recursive) name server > is "not very nice"?
radio-based connections can often be lossy and higher latency than landline comms; it will usually work much better if you offload the main chain of DNS lookups to a resolver on a lower latency, less lossy connection, and just send 1 query and get 1 response over the radio conn..
