From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 10 10:38:58 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from weeble.dyndns.org (ubppp248-169.dialin.buffalo.edu [128.205.248.169]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2A4637BA5E for ; Fri, 10 Mar 2000 10:38:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjm2@earthling.net) Received: from shithead (shithead.weeble.dyndns.org [10.0.0.2]) by weeble.dyndns.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id NAA12394; Fri, 10 Mar 2000 13:38:43 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from cjm2@earthling.net) From: "C J Michaels" To: Cc: Subject: RE: Caching DNS server behind NAT.... Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 13:38:41 -0500 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <200003022218.OAA23733@cytosine.dhs.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG One thing to keep in mind tho, is if your ISP's name server is really slow you'll see a speed increase. On the other hand, if the ISP's name server is fast, you'll probably hurt yourself. -Chris -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Bhishan Hemrajani Sent: Thursday, March 02, 2000 5:19 PM To: bwoods2@uswest.net Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Caching DNS server behind NAT.... DNS only does lookups... so not that much of a difference. It doesn't affect speed at all. Just the amount of time to resolve an ip. Yes, a caching DNS server can run behind NAT. It runs on port 53. --bhishan > I have a small home lan, 5 systems behind a cisco 675 DSL modem which does NAT. > I am toying with the idea of makeing one of my systems (ine of > the FreeBSD ones) a caching DNS server for the other 4. > > What (if any) benefits would I see in speed if I ran a local caching DNS server? > > Would a caching DNS server run behind a cisco 675 NAT? > > What port does DNS listen on if I have to forward the port. > > Thanks. > > ---------------------------------- > E-Mail: bwoods2@uswest.net > Date: 02-Mar-00 > Time: 10:12:03l > ---------------------------------- > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message