* Martijn van Oosterhout said: > > > 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. Yup, it seems right. > Maybe we need to get away from the idea that BIND is suitable for all > situations. Well, for many purposes bind is certainly too huge, maybe it's time for a virtual dns-server package and several DNS daemons that serve various purposes? marek
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