On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 08:51:41AM -0700, Steve wrote: > Hey everyone, > Recently I my ISP appears to have had a DNS outage and it got me > thinking, maybe I should run a DNS server here locally for the > computers on my own LAN. > Has anyone on the list tried doing it? If so what was your > experience. What hardware/software did you run. Did it end up > working well?
I use bind 9, generally available from most distributions. For the local stuff, it is authoritative. For the rest of the world, it caches locally as usual. I just run it on my own desktop, so it doesn't eat any extra resurces. I started doing this back when I had dialup, and found it made a noticable difference in human factors, such as speeding up loading web pages. -- Charles Curley /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ / Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com / \ No M$ Word docs in email Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0 809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB
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