On Mon, 18 Mar 2002, at 11:40 [=GMT-0500], Richard J. Sexton wrote: > >> [1] http://cr.yp.to/dnsroot.html or http://support.open-rsc.org > >> > >> I do this on my home Windows box > > > >Slaving root? How? Windows9*? > > There's a $35 piece of sofware called "Simple DNS+" that puts bind to shame > for ease of use anf user friendlyness. http://www.jhsoft.com/ There's a 30 > day free trial. I tried it and paid for it, it's really quite amazing; it does > caching, authoritative nameservice and zone transfers.
Works fine indeed. Thanks. Pity the price has gone up to $79. That includes 25 zones, but those I do not need. > I secondary the orsc root zone with it, and redefine things like web.ads.aol.com > and counters.honesty.com and doubleclick so I don't have to look at their ads. > > I think new versions of Windows have a built in nameseerver but I really > don't know about that stuff.
