On Thu, 2014-01-02 at 17:11 -0500, James Knott wrote:
Hans Witvliet wrote:
Dns is a pretty lightweight service, so the recommendation even 20 years ago was to dedicate a low performance PC to dns. The reason for that is uptime for your local dns server is very important. Having a local dns server means 99% of dns lookups will be handled at local lan speeds. It also means the cache of names/ips is shared by all your machines.
Sounds like a good job for a couple of raspberry pi's (primary & secondary dns). Each of them fed from its own recharchable and PSU.
Actually, it's a good job for any computer that's running all the time. My firewall/router is an old i586 computer running openSUSE 11.4. That's where ai run Dnscache, along with some other services.
Yeah, i know. I used to have my dns on my firewall/imap/dhcp/... machine. But i found out that if something goes wrong with dns, everything else tumbled down. Hence i going to migrate my dns-functionality to two machines doing nothing else. @John, my main access is via cable, secondly via adsl (different providers) and if even those fail i still got a GSM-modem hw -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org