Hola Jon
If you haven`t a reliable connection, better use a slave DNS server on your
box.
It will fetch the DNS tables from your ISP.
----- Original Message -----
From: "James Raftery" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2000 1:02 PM
Subject: Re: Qmail & DNS
> 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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