| Stephen Gran on 26 Sep 2006 20:21:42 -0000 |
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On Tue, Sep 26, 2006 at 01:47:14PM -0400, Randy Schmidt said: > When Stephan mentioned a caching nameserver, I googled for information > about it. One thing that wasn't clear was whether that worked for just > the one computer or if I could set up the network so that all of the > computers used the computer with the caching nameserver. Does that > make sense? Or would I have to set up one computer as a full DNS to do > that? If you want a single nameserver that all your machines can query, run bind. If you just want something for the local machines, there are lighter weight alternatives. That being said, bind9 run on a low stress network like a home LAN is not particularly resource intensive (my recursive forwarder for my home LAN is a 700 MHz via machine). Take care, -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Stephen Gran | The absurd is the essential concept and | | steve@lobefin.net | the first truth. -- A. Camus | | http://www.lobefin.net/~steve | | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Attachment:
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