[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> This list has been very helpful.  I believe one of many
> things I've learned is that a caching DNS server provides
> a little more security than a foreign DNS server you don't
> have control over.
> 
> This got me thinking.... why not run a caching DNS server
> on *ALL* your PCs then if this is true???
> 
> Why couldn't you run a caching DNS server on that laptop
> you travel with?? How about on that lone PC you have at home?
> How about that PC at the office?  It seems almost every
> PC...even a lone PC, can benefit from a caching DNS server right???

Sure? Why not?

In the home LAN, I'd designate one system to be the cache for the entire
LAN. In one of those rare instances of ``taking one's own advice'' this
is exactly what I do at home.

When I had a working laptop, it did run its own caching nameserver.

-john  ``SLB''
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