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- From: ckd@eff.org (Christopher Davis)
- Subject: Re: DNS name servers
- In-Reply-To: larry@gator.use.com's message of Sun, 27 Dec 1992 14:33:04 GMT
- Message-ID: <CKD.93Jan5202211@loiosh.eff.org>
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- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 01:22:13 GMT
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- LS> == Larry Snyder <larry@gator.use.com>
-
- LS> We are using a cached name server (it works fine, and it appears
- LS> that as the machine is up and running for a couple of days, it
- LS> really gets faster since I assume the name to IP addresses are
- LS> in the cache verses requiring a lookup via the DNS - does anyone
- LS> know of a good book that explains how and why this works? and what
- LS> would be required to run a complete namesever locally).
-
- The new OR&A Nutshell book on DNS & BIND is quite good. I've been doing
- this stuff for a while, and I still found it useful (and learned stuff from
- it).
-
- As for "complete", don't bother; you don't want to save stuff to disk that
- you're not being authoritative for, because the TTLs will get stale.
- (Sure, that means it takes a day or two for your cache to fill, but that's
- life; the same thing happens to your disk buffers...)
- --
- Christopher K. Davis | ``Usenet seems to run much like the Kif (or,
- <ckd@eff.org> EFF #14 | for the TV generation, Klingon) high command.
- System Administrator, EFF | Whoever takes action and can be heard wins.''
- +1 617 864 0665 [CKD1] | --Peter da Silva <peter@ferranti.com>
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