"S. David Pullara" wrote:
>
> Excuse me if this is sounds very lame; I'm sorely lacking in
> networking knowledge.
>
> I've the pleasure (misfortune?) of having an ADSL connection and I've
> noticed that when the ISP's DNS is down, sendmail doesn't seem to
> startup. (same goes for fetchmail, but that might be because I have
> it trying to access the mailbox using a domain name) This last time
> it happened I couldn't even start up X.
>
> Is there a simple answer to this, based on what I've given so far?
Yeah, configure your own DNS server and ignore theirs. At the very least,
configure a cache-only DNS server or a forwarding DNS server. The O'Reilly
books on "TCP/IP Network Administration" and "DNS and BIND" will be very
helpful to you. Start with the TCP/IP book and buy the DNS book when you
run out of help in the other one.
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