>>Well, bind is what every root servers uses Point taken
>>If it is caching only, it should be (relatively) >>easy to set up with bind. That prevents some extra >>network traffic that would be seen from both >>IMail's MX record lookups as well as the numerous >>spam database lookups That's what I thought. Thanks Scott -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of R. Scott Perry Sent: Thursday, October 03, 2002 10:08 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] OT: DNS and IMAIL >1) I know that as an email admin, I need to know much more about DNS, >and specifically how to configure it. I have seen posts, both here and >elsewhere, that argue the superiority of BIND over MS-DNS. Well, bind is what every root servers uses, if I recall correctly. That should say something. As far as I know, the only real advantage to MS DNS is that it has a GUI (that looks nicer than Notepad!). But, I've also seen that GUI make some bad mistakes (IE someone who had more DNS knowledge than the typical mailserver admin entered something that seemed obvious, but didn't do what it was expected to do). We set up bind here internally, and although I can't say I know much about how it works, it works. We only have a couple of domains that we need it to be authoritative for, so it is mostly a caching DNS server, and as such, it works flawlessly, and requires very little (if any) maintenance. >2)Should I build an independent cacheing-only nameserver for IMAIL on >the IMAIL server? The hardware could handle it, I'm sure (dual >AthlonMP >2200+, 1G ECC PC2100, W2KS). What would be the pros and cons of this? It's not a bad idea. If it is caching only, it should be (relatively) easy to set up with bind. That prevents some extra network traffic that would be seen from both IMail's MX record lookups as well as the numerous spam database lookups, which use DNS as well. -Scott --- Declude: Anti-virus, Anti-spam and Anti-hijacking solutions for IMail. http://www.declude.com --- [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.com)] To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
