Heh! Like minds think alike :)
On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 1:39 PM,
kitepilot@kitepilot.com <
kitepilot@kitepilot.com> wrote:
> I would save myself the grief of running a DNS and set my resolv.conf to
> 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4
> See:
> http://www.linuxfromscratch.**org/lfs/view/stable/chapter07/**network.html<http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/stable/chapter07/network.html>
> ET
>
> Derek Trotter writes:
>
>> Since I signed up with my ISP I've had trouble with dns. Sometimes urls
>> take a long time to resolve. Other times I get errors saying the url
>> couldn't be found. Sometimes a page won't load properly because parts of
>> it come from other urls and those don't resolve. Calls to tech support are
>> a waste of time. So I want to host dns at home.
>> On 10/3/2012 13:14, James Mcphee wrote:
>>
>>> No, this is somewhat arcane, but depending on what functions you want,
>>> can be quite simple. DNS works by reference, so you don't load the world's
>>> DNS onto your server. That server will still need valid external DNS
>>> servers.
>>> I prefer BIND, myself. I have friends that enjoy PowerDNS. What exact
>>> uses are you trying to get out of it?
>>> On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 12:54 PM, Derek Trotter <expat.arizonan@gmail.com<mailto:
>>> expat.arizonan@gmail.**com <expat.arizonan@gmail.com>>> wrote:
>>> I'm thinking of running dns at home on my linux box(kubuntu 8). I
>>> don't want a caching server. Would this be difficult to set up?
>>> Would this consume a lot of bandwidth?
>>> Thanks
>>> -- "One mistake up here and it's half a day out with the
>>> undertaker!"
>>> - Fred Dibnah
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