On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 11:35:38AM +0100, Jonathan Fanti wrote:
> I am setting up a mail router here at work, I realise that the box I am
> running qmail on needs also to be running DNS. Is it okay for this to be
> a name-caching only server with forwards to my ISP's DNS server?
Hi Jon,
The DNS server doesn't *need* to be on the same machine, but it'll big a
big help if it is. Excessive DNS latency can be a real pain.
That said, using a forwarder would work fine.
Regards,
james
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