Re: NMU'ing for wishlist bugs? (aka: intent to NMU bind9)

[Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org>]

On Mon, Sep 16, 2002 at 01:53:50PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote:
> Agreed.  I consider bind locally a standard installation.  Over a

Then you're nuts. It's a security pit and extreme overkill.

> If you have a large network of machines then local caching reduces the
> network traffic.  

What you should do in this case is distribute name servers closer to the
network edge. E.g., a per-subnet cache or somesuch. In any case if dns
is any significant fraction of your network bandwidth you've got bigger
problems.

Mike Stone