Re: To the bind maintainer
On Sat, Jan 22, 2000 at 01:31:50PM -0600, Steve Greenland wrote:
> On 21-Jan-00, 21:32 (CST), Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> wrote:
> > For every person who really wants a question in the postinst to choose an
> > option like this, there exists a person for whom interactivity in the postinst
> > is intensely frustrating.
>
> That would be me. :-)
>
> 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
> user have BIND installed? (Actually, now that I think about it, why is
> there a "task-name-server" package?)
>
> This is going to sound condescending, but if you aren't capable of
> reading a few man pages and modifying a few config files, then you
> aren't capable of maintaining a name server.
>
> Steve
>
> [1] Assuming you're using it *as* a notebook, not a notebook sitting
> in one spot full-time, just because you had it laying around when
> you needed a new nameserver box. But in that case it wouldn't have
> interfaces going up and down all the time, would it?
Because there are a lot of situations where running a local caching
name server is a good thing, even if you're not making it auth for
any zones.
This is very good on:
Servers with heavy DNS lookup activity (saves traffic and resources
on whatever other DNS server you would use)
Laptops / desktops on the end of a slow net connection (saves traffic,
and fixes DNS latency problems once addresses are cached)
On high-end mail servers for example, running a local caching name
server can noticably reduce load average, responsiveness, and message
latency problems.
When I used to dial in over 2400 or lower, it was a _very_ good thing,
as any traffic reduction plus anything that saves having to wait for
the packets to make it through the link (many second ping times, often)
was a good thing. It was also useful at speeds you'll still see today
sometimes, 14.4 and sometimes even heavily loaded 28.8 - 33.6.
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