Domain Name Server.
The DNS is what turns the name www.example.com into the number
123.456.789.01 that is the real address of the site so your browser and
other internet using programs can find it. When you visit the internet,
each time you type a name into the browser's 'get this url' entry box,
it has to be turned back into the numbers and the numbers are then used
to find the web-site. This DNS tool keeps a copy of those numbers on
your machine, so that your browser does not have to ask your ISP's
computers what they are. You do have to build this up over time. This
is the more useful tool of the ones he has listed. The other one
(QMail) is useful if you want to deal with the ENTIRE headache of
taking care of your own email entirely, (redundant use of the word
entire is on purpose.) and as Lee notes, not necessary for most folks,
but it is now available with an installer. You can also use this in a
more limited fashion for internal emailing purposes, which is the
set-up that gets installed via this package.
Jerry
On Friday, February 28, 2003, at 11:06 AM, Marta Edie wrote:
> 28.02.2003 10:29 UhrLee LarsonLeeLarson at mac.com:
>
>> On Friday, February 28, 2003, at 12:52 AM, Jerry Yeager wrote:
>>
>>> This is a collection of tools written by Daniel Berenstein that
>>> allows
>>> you to install QMail (a more secure version of SendMail) and enable
>>> DNS caching on you Mac (10.2 required).
>>
>> It might be good to note that almost nobody needs to be running qmail
>> or sendmail. Open relays created by bad installations of either are
>> what make a lot of spammers happy.
>>
>> Qmail is the second most common mail transport agent, behind sendmail,
>> on the Internet. Mac OS X comes with sendmail, but it's turned off by
>> default. What both programs do is allow your machine to become an SMTP
>> server rather than just a client. Neither one is needed to read or
>> send
>> your e-mail.
>>
>>
>>
>> | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will
>> | be March 25. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>.
>
> DNS stands for ??? - Marta
>
>
>
> | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will
> | be March 25. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>.
>
>
>
| The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will
| be March 25. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>.
