From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Oct 2 15:50:17 1996 Return-Path: owner-isp Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id PAA12622 for isp-outgoing; Wed, 2 Oct 1996 15:50:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ns2.harborcom.net (root@ns2.harborcom.net [206.158.4.4]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id PAA12589 for ; Wed, 2 Oct 1996 15:49:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from majestic.dunn.org (majestic.dunn.org [206.158.7.242]) by ns2.harborcom.net (8.7.6/8.6.12) with ESMTP id SAA28056 for ; Wed, 2 Oct 1996 18:49:51 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199610022249.SAA28056@ns2.harborcom.net> From: "Bradley Dunn" To: Subject: Re: redundant news systems Date: Wed, 2 Oct 1996 18:50:22 -0400 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Microsoft Internet Mail 4.70.1155 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Everyone should be concerned with reducing network traffic. > > DNS is cached by everyone and everything, because although it seems > short and sweet, it's often slow. Loading down nameservers unnecessarily > makes matters worse. > > You and your systems aren't the only ones affected. Then whose are? Remember, we are talking about news here. News servers are typically located on the same LAN as the DNS server and the dialup servers. Typically the people accessing the news servers are people dialed into the access servers. I don't buy the argument that a low ttl will load a name server either. A 32MB Pentium will handle hundreds of queries per second, provided it isn't doing anything other than DNS. > > > Richard -BD