[Tfug] caching nameserver for performance only

[John Gruenenfelder]

On Sun, Jul 24, 2005 at 01:30:54AM -0700, t takahashi wrote:
>> 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.

The one I use at home is pdnsd.  It's in the Debian archive and it works quite
well.  However, I haven't tried any of the others so I can't compare.


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