Frode Egeland wrote: >> Wow .. there is *no* reason at all to install bind? > > If it's installed as a caching dns server, that might be a benefit?
BIND is not limited just to people hosting DNS services. It's lightweight, and works perfectly fine as a read-only caching DNS server that resolves directly from root nameservers. What do you think 99% of Australian ISPs use to cache domain names they don't own or control? BIND, of course. BIND's default install sets it up to resolve names directly from the root nameservers (bypassing any of Telstra's or any other ISP's inbuilt stupidity), and is set to cache by default. Installing it requires zero configuration other than setting your DNS to point to localhost (a trivial task, even for home users). Considering this thread has gone on for dozens of posts now, installing BIND seems like a perfectly valid fix to bypass all of Telstra's DNS idiocy. Don't confuse the fact that people use BIND for so much more with it being inappropriate for low-end, single-user, cache-only setups. -Dan PS: This post sent to you by my ISP's SMTP server, with it's name resolved by a caching-only BIND9 install on a Linux machine. -- ubuntu-au mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
