local DNS server

[Dotan Cohen]

On 12/12/06, Tim <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> Wasn't it them doing yet another stupid Verisign trick?  (Redirect
> enquiries that should return no results to some second-guess what you
> might have wanted.)

They market that as a feature :)
But they are upfront about it on the website, and they do mention that
it is their only revenue stream.

> Remember that a lot of look-ups are going to be to do with web browsing,
> where (for DNS that is working well) the tiny amounts of time involved
> in resolving an address is nothing compared to the general lethargicness
> of web browsers rendering pages.

That's true. Have you seen the KillerNIC? (OT)

> > Looks like it can be made about half it's own size if white space is removed.
>
> Much of that is tabs, not spaces, so it's smaller than it looks.  I
> think we're past the days of 4 meg 386 boxes, where you needed to be
> concerned about whether a file was using 5 or 10k of space.

I'm frugal :)

> Just looking through my /var/named/ directory, where such files are
> kept, the main one's 1.6kB, there's a few around 198 Bytes, and my one
> filled with domains to get no answers for (doubleclick, etc.) is only
> 186 Bytes.

Want to share that one with me?

Dotan Cohen

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