On 2013-05-29, Duane Hill <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wednesday, May 29, 2013 at 4:10:45 AM UTC, [email protected] confabulated: > >> Thank you to everyone who has replied! :) > >> The thought of installing my own caching nameserver on the VPS and >> using that as my local resolver to get around this issue did also cross >> my mind, however I am already running the powerdns authoritive server on >> there to serve out all my zones. Getting the powerdns recursor to work >> on the server would be painful (I guess I could create a jail and run it >> in there, or bind it to a sub interface ip so it doesn't clash).... > >> I am a little pissed at my vps provider for assuming that OpenDNS is an >> adequate default for everyone. I have raised a support ticket with them >> to see whether they have a local resolver. I can see the company has >> COLO at a provider in LA (possibly Quadranet). I am sure there must be a >> set of local resolvers for the data centre location that will work (this >> is certainly the case for my work, we have colo at Hurricane Electric, >> HE have a set of resolvers that one can use there).. I have asked the >> provider for these if they don't have their own local one in the US. > >> I guess the local caching nameserver is one way out of this, an >> overkill one, but an option... I was really hoping to avoid it if I can. >> What a pain in the butt.. > > I don't consider the resolver being local unless it is running on the > server I have Exim running. > > All of my servers running here have this as the resolv.conf: > > domain localhost > nameserver 127.0.0.1 > > and bind running. I know bind is overkill. However, I have never > had issues running this way for quite a number of years.
I'm seeing occasional heavy loads on bind - upto 0.80% (of a cpu core) serving about 2000 queries per second, (I used tcpdump) but as you say this doesn't seem to be a problem. -- ⚂⚃ 100% natural -- ## List details at https://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
