On Sat, 2005-07-05 at 19:08 -0700, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> On Sat, 7 May 2005, Bryce C wrote:
>
> > I've been having DNS issues for the last 6 months but especially today
> > using Cox's DNS. I used to have a couple of DNS servers I used on the
> > AT&T backbone, but sadly I've lost those. Anyone got some good ones that
> > don't suck like Cox's do?
>
> Just use your own Linux box to run a caching (sometimes known as
> recursive) DNS server. It is easy and makes it easy to troubleshoot
> problems.
>
> BIND's named is simple.
>
> You could also use djb's dnscache and maradns, but not pdns and not nsd.
In fact, I am using a caching DNS, dnsmasq
(
http://thekelleys.org.uk/dnsmasq/doc.html
), but that doesn't help when records are TTL'd to such short lengths.
I've resisted using the root servers directly because they are so
important and have enough load already, but I'll rethink.
Thanks All
-Bryce
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