On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 02:37:16AM -0800, Cory Petkovsek wrote:
>workstations. I also run one on my laptop because on some networks I plug
>in to, they don't have a local dns cache.
I also run a caching DNS server on my laptop. I have configured my DHCP
client to never overwrite my DNS settings.
I did this because I was tired of moving from place to place and getting
DHCP addresses, but sometimes not getting a functioning DNS setup. I
finally decided that I'd be happier if I just always pulled DNS of my
laptop or directly out from the public net. In a very few cases I've
had to change the setup to use a local DNS server, but that's been
extremely rare.
The only real problem I've had with it was at a hotel. They were using
DNS hijacking for the in-room broadband, so that when you first
connected, no matter where you went with a browser, you got a particular
page that made you ack the payment.
However, their setup was buggy, and the box would reboot whenever it got
a particular DNS query to one of the root servers -- this didn't happen
if you were using their DNS setup via DHCP, but would if you were
running your own DNS server. Everytime one of these packets went out,
the box was dead in the water for about 2 minutes while it rebooted.
We were at the hotel for a Linux conference, and not suprisingly there
were a lot of people running their own DNS servers on their laptops...
I finally just gave up trying to use the in-room stuff.
I use djbdns's dnscache and it works very well for me.
Sean
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