Can I create a DNS list on my computer?

David Cary Hart Fedora at TQMcube.com
Mon Jun 28 14:28:45 UTC 2004


On Mon, 2004-06-28 at 10:20, Ben Steeves wrote:
> > 
> > Why not just add the list to "hosts?"
> 
> Because maintaining hosts is not fault-tolerant, whereas DNS is.  For
> example, this week www.somedns.com may point at 123.12.12.123, but
> www.somedns.com is actually hosted on some guy's broadband connection,

While that is absolutely correct there are experience issues AND I doubt
that the caching name server will improve performance since the cache is
volatile.

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