Agreed.
However, a "caching only" nameserver, only serving the internal interface
can be a nice performance boost, and is safe. I had mentioned this
originaly (along with a dhcpd server) as an enhancement, and was probably
a bad idea to bring it up at that point :)
Lets' hope he finds the time to read this thread before going off trying
to setup his own DNS then!
charles
On Wed, 9 Aug 2000, John Aldrich wrote:
> Yep. The only reason I said anything was he was proposing to set up
> his own dns server. In my opinion (which is worth less than the paper
> it's written on <G>) you should only set up a DNS server if you
> plan on running a domain off your machines, and even then, see if you
> can get your DNS hosted by someone else, due to the increasing
> fondness for attacking DNS servers! :-(
> John
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