Re: DNS servers
On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 12:55:42AM +0100, Russell Coker wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Nov 2002 23:27, jernej horvat wrote:
> > On Tuesday 19 November 2002 23:14, Donovan Baarda wrote:
> > > I am successfuly using pdnsd for DNS caching on; a small network (4 hosts
> > > + 2 dialins)
> >
> > Bigger systems can't afford to change or experiment with sw.
> >
> > OTOH it would also help if clients would have dns cache servers on their
> > side. I know that Windows XP has dns cache built in and i think Steve
> > Gibson is working for a client for all Windows platforms (www.grc.com).
>
> As applications always seem to cache DNS in one way or another I'm not sure
> that a per-workstation cache will help that much. Applications that only
> lookup a few servers (such as email clients) tend to just look them up once
> per session. Applications that do lots of lookups (web log analysis and
> Squid) have their own caches.
>From an ISP point of view, "client" often means the small buisness network
the client has that connects to your network. In this case, a single DNS
cache for their network makes sense. In my experience pdnsd is a good
solution for this.
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