Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2005 11:35:35 +0930 From: Malcolm Kay <malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> To: Jeremy Bogan <jeremy@segpub.com.au> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Hosts/dns contention in FBSD 5.4 Message-ID: <200510051135.35932.malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> In-Reply-To: <A8A8B9D2-0248-4C6D-8932-5EB9E2ADDC10@segpub.com.au> References: <200510050050.26723.malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> <A8A8B9D2-0248-4C6D-8932-5EB9E2ADDC10@segpub.com.au>
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On Wed, 5 Oct 2005 11:06 am, Jeremy Bogan wrote: > You could try running a caching DNS server locally, DjbDNS is > simple to setup and get going. > Yes, I have thought that maybe a local simple caching dns server would help; and if I can't otherwise fix the problem I'll give it a go. And I appreciate your suggestion of DjbDNS. It does seem however that this should not be necessary. Thanks, Malcolm Kay > On 05/10/2005, at 1:20 AM, Malcolm Kay wrote: > > ... > > But if the internet connection breaks -- e.g. the routers > > crash or the ISP connection fails for some reason then > > trying to ssh into the machine from another local machine is > > a problem -- either timing out our taking a very very long > > time. > > ...
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