Re: Dyndns.org configuration

From: Netocrat (netocrat_at_dodo.com.au)
Date: 08/24/05 

Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 02:32:48 +1000

On Tue, 23 Aug 2005 16:39:24 -0500, Ivan Marsh <annoyed@you.now> wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Aug 2005 04:41:57 +1000, Netocrat wrote:
>> Ivan Marsh <annoyed@you.now> wrote:
>>> On Tue, 23 Aug 2005 01:23:48 +0100, Steve Welsh wrote:
>>>> Ivan Marsh wrote:
>>>>> On Mon, 22 Aug 2005 23:29:44 +0200, Jollyluke wrote: If you're only
>>>>> talking about a few machines it would probably be easier to put your
>>>>> local machines in your host files rather than setting up a DNS
>>>>> server.
>>>>
>>>> Bind is one of the easiest things I ever set up on my Linux server -
>>>> just follow the HOWTO :)
>>>
>>> True... it is quite easy to set up... but host files are easier.
>>>
>>>> Also, considerable improvements in resolution times.
>>>
>>> It's impossible for a DNS server to resolve faster than host files.
>>> Your machine always checks the host files before it does a DNS lookup.
>>
>> You're assuming that the host exists in the host file.
>
> That goes without saying, hence the "put your hosts in the host file"
> part of the previous message.

It seemed to me that Steve was referring to resolution in general
(which he has confirmed in a separate post). In the specific case under
discussion, unless as someone else has pointed out the resolution order
has been changed so that DNS is consulted before hosts file, of course you
are right that the hosts file will always be faster.

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