Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 07:32:21 -0500 From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: Arcady Genkin <antipode@thpoon.com> Cc: freebsd-chat <freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Hosting my own domain. Message-ID: <15098.35413.109238.930161@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <877kzpvg19.fsf@tea.thpoon.com> References: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10105062258270.1151-100000@bilawal.cse.iitd.ernet.in> <15093.37891.477055.231085@guru.mired.org> <877kzpvg19.fsf@tea.thpoon.com>
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Arcady Genkin <antipode@thpoon.com> types: > A month or so ago I read in comp.risks a message from a guy, who had a > home computer that was the primary DNS server for his domain. So he > wrote a message to some popular moderated mailing list. He claims > that once the moderator approved his message, and it started to go out > to all the subscribers, their mail servers started resolving his domain > name (which wasn't in anybody's cache), to the point that his Pentium > (or whatever) computer could not handle it and crashed a few times. > > Would anybody care to comment on this? Anyone running their own > primary DNS off a home computer on a cable modem/DSL line? I've done that, but I set things up so that I didn't get any DNS queries over the DSL line. My ISP ran secondaries from my primary, and I only listed my ISPs dns servers with the NIC. These days, there are better alternatives - check the list archives for a discussion of the issues. <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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