Russ Allbery writes:
> Russell Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > *Always* run a nameserver on your qmail machine, even if it's
> > caching-only.
>
> Er... if it's handling a reasonably high volume of mail. If it's only
> churning out a message or two every ten minutes, I wouldn't bother; BIND
> is a huge memory hog and also a program that tends to have to be
> frequently upgraded due to security holes.
Isn't BIND the next pig in djb's sights?
> In other words, run a caching name server on your mail *servers*, but not
> on every random Unix workstation that happens to be running qmail.
Russ is right, of course. We Russ'es always are. :) Except when
we're not.
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