Wow, that _is_ a pretty big mail backup on sourceware
Jeffrey A Law
law@redhat.com
Mon Dec 31 19:40:00 GMT 2001
In message < si8zmzh4gc.fsf@daffy.airs.com >you write:
> Why does sourceware use external name servers? That's going to slow
> Has anybody considered installing dnscache from djbdns? I'm using it
> at airs.com. I would be happy to install it on sourceware--it's a
> snap to install. Does anybody think that would be a bad idea?
>
> Running a local name server would send a bit more traffic over the
> external network routes. But domain traffic is very small. And the
> useful information would be cached. Overall I think it would speed up
> performance a bit.
Running a caching nameserver sounds like an excellent idea. I have no
idea why it isn't being done already.
jeff
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