At 11:07 AM 8/12/99 -0400, you wrote:
>James Raftery writes:
> > On Thu, Aug 12, 1999 at 02:15:17PM +0100, Simon Rae wrote:

> > > line traffic. Does this sound feasible? Is there anything I can do to
> > > remedy this apart from splash out extra cash on a line upgrade (assuming
> > > this is the problem)?
> > 
> > You (c|s)hould run a nameserver on your qmail machine. It's makes quite
> > a difference.
>
>*Always* run a nameserver on your qmail machine, even if it's caching-only.

Ummmm, i'm a little confused here, I don't admin my own DNS (UUNET does
that for me), is there a difference between DNS and a caching nameserver?

if so, will a caching nameserver speed up web queries by the machines
who get their net access via the linux box (NAT)?

-Bill

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