From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 2 14:19:13 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cytosine.dhs.org (cx272244-a.orng1.occa.home.com [24.1.177.149]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7BB3737B5CC for ; Thu, 2 Mar 2000 14:19:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bhishan@cytosine.dhs.org) Received: (from bhishan@localhost) by cytosine.dhs.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id OAA23733; Thu, 2 Mar 2000 14:18:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bhishan) From: Bhishan Hemrajani Message-Id: <200003022218.OAA23733@cytosine.dhs.org> Subject: Re: Caching DNS server behind NAT.... In-Reply-To: from William Woods at "Mar 2, 2000 10:15:11 am" To: bwoods2@uswest.net Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2000 14:18:55 -0800 (PST) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL68 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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