Re: [CentOS] OT Advantage of running DNS server?

2015-07-05 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2015-06-22, Timothy Murphy gayle...@eircom.net wrote: What is the advantage, if any, of running one's own DNS server? Surely the link between domain name and IP address must already have been established? As others have said, it depends on your circumstances and what you want to achieve.

Re: [CentOS] OT Advantage of running DNS server?

2015-07-05 Thread Bill Gee
And for me the advantage is I get to have name resolution on my internal machines. On Sunday, July 05, 2015 14:57:22 Liam O'Toole wrote: On 2015-06-22, Timothy Murphy gayle...@eircom.net wrote: What is the advantage, if any, of running one's own DNS server? Surely the link between

Re: [CentOS] OT Advantage of running DNS server?

2015-06-23 Thread James B. Byrne
On Mon, June 22, 2015 08:14, Timothy Murphy wrote: What is the advantage, if any, of running one's own DNS server? Surely the link between domain name and IP address must already have been established? Response time. If one does not possess delegated authority for ones own forward zone or

Re: [CentOS] OT Advantage of running DNS server?

2015-06-22 Thread John R Pierce
On 6/22/2015 5:27 AM, Mark Haney wrote: I suppose a lot of it depends on your needs. For us, we run internal DNS servers for all the VMs we have running; mostly for software development and monitoring. It makes sense for us to do so as we have mostly Macs (and my Linux workstation) that work

[CentOS] OT Advantage of running DNS server?

2015-06-22 Thread Timothy Murphy
What is the advantage, if any, of running one's own DNS server? Surely the link between domain name and IP address must already have been established? -- Timothy Murphy gayleard /at/ eircom.net School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin ___

Re: [CentOS] OT Advantage of running DNS server?

2015-06-22 Thread Jonathan Billings
On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 01:14:56PM +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote: What is the advantage, if any, of running one's own DNS server? Surely the link between domain name and IP address must already have been established? DNS servers *are* the link between domain name and IP address. Someone has to

Re: [CentOS] OT Advantage of running DNS server?

2015-06-22 Thread Mark Haney
I suppose a lot of it depends on your needs. For us, we run internal DNS servers for all the VMs we have running; mostly for software development and monitoring. It makes sense for us to do so as we have mostly Macs (and my Linux workstation) that work better using DNS. Had we been a mostly

Re: [CentOS] OT Advantage of running DNS server?

2015-06-22 Thread Alexander Dalloz
Am 2015-06-22 14:14, schrieb Timothy Murphy: What is the advantage, if any, of running one's own DNS server? Surely the link between domain name and IP address must already have been established? Hi, about which scenario are you talking? You have an authoritative DNS server in mind, or a