[Gllug] DNS for New Domain

[Andrew Farnsworth]

Steve Nelson wrote:

>On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 12:44:25 +0000, Sean Burlington
><sean at uncertainty.org.uk> wrote:
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>>Steve Nelson wrote:
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>>>What do folk typically do for DNS?  In the past (using demon) I've
>>>never had to think about it.
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>>bind9  (see earlier lengthy discussion!)
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>Yeah - I rather meant do people do their own or use a 3rd party...
>which you've answered - thanks.
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>>You don't need to dedicate a machine to serve DNS for a personal domain
>>- it's very low load and not worth the pollution generated
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>I have some very old machines not doing anything - would be nice to
>have them employed :-)
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>S.
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Most people who are running a linux firewall should use it as (at least) 
a cacheing DNS server.  I know the bandwidth required for DNS is low, 
but the more you keep off your broadband connection, the faster those 
downloads go...

Andrew Farnsworth
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