On Apr 15, 2005, at 1:13 AM, Jerry Pasker wrote:
Jeff Cole wrote:
Run bind locally on your laptop. There's a Win32 version available
if you're not running some sort of Unix or Linux on there. It's
what I do as my ISP's DNS is wonky at times, as is $ork's as they
choose to use Active Directory for DNS.
For the sake of the root servers, I hope everyone doesn't start doing this.
Well configured laptops will not put that much pressure on the
roots. A single misconfigured / broken recursive name server puts a
lot more pressure on the roots than lots of well-configured laptops.
I guess one could argue that the chance of misconfiguration go up as
the number of systems goes up.
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TTFN,
patrick
I didn't say "I hope a few cluefull people don't do this." I said "I
hope _everyone_ doesn't start doing this." Big difference.
