[Tfug] caching nameserver for performance only

[t takahashi]

On 7/23/05, Brian Murphy <murphy+tfug at email.arizona.edu> wrote:
> Quoting t takahashi <gambarimasu at gmail.com>:
> > why don't most desktop users connected to an isp install a caching
> > nameserver for performance?
> 
> 
> A lot of users don't know about it.  ISPs don't publicize it much
> because each user sends out a DNS query instead of the ISP's name
> server sending it once for an entire population.

i don't get the second part of your response.  i mean why aren't
personal nameservers almost as popular as firewalls?

oblinux: which of the debian tiny caching firewalls is best?  there
are a bunch in the archive.

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