Re: To the bind maintainer

[Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@cupid.suninternet.com>]

Marek Habersack wrote:
> 
> > Actually, I'm kinda confused about all this talk about running BIND on
> > personal machines (notebooks?) and by newbies. Why on earth would you
> > run BIND on a notebook[1]? Why on earth would a (relatively) new Linux
> Caching nameserver with fast forwarder. Caching locally all the lookups you
> make is sometimes quite desirable on dial-up connections.

>From looking at frshmeat, there seems to be many dns servers created
for the sole purpose of caching results. Some even allow you to define
zones.

Maybe we need to get away from the idea that BIND is suitable for all
situations.

Martijn