Re: Dyndns.org configuration

From: Ivan Marsh (annoyed_at_you.now)
Date: 08/24/05 

Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 14:01:37 -0500

On Thu, 25 Aug 2005 04:15:27 +1000, Netocrat wrote:

> On Wed, 24 Aug 2005 12:38:24 -0500, Ivan Marsh <annoyed@you.now> wrote:
>> On Thu, 25 Aug 2005 02:32:48 +1000, Netocrat wrote:
>>>>>> On Tue, 23 Aug 2005 01:23:48 +0100, Steve Welsh wrote:
> [...]
>>>>>>> Bind is one of the easiest things I ever set up on my Linux server
>>>>>>> - just follow the HOWTO :)
> [...]
>>>>>>> Also, considerable improvements in resolution times.
> [...]
>>> It seemed to me that Steve was referring to resolution in general
>>> (which he has confirmed in a separate post).
>>
>> Not to beat a dead horse but I'm not sure what that means...
>> resolution, in general, includes the host file.
>
> By "in general" I meant not limited to any situation under discussion in
> the thread - i.e. I believe Steve intended his statement to be
> interpreted something like, "After installing a bind server, my
> resolution times on average improved considerably" and that he intended
> that average to include queries regarding any anonymous and public
> internet host as well as for local hosts.

Ahh... okay, I didn't get the context, or lack there of, of what we were
talking about.
 
> I don't think he intended to make any comment on the speed of bind
> relative to the hosts file - it isn't clear from his statement that he
> even has any hosts in his hosts file.
>
> I don't disagree with anything you've written and I'm not questioning
> the accuracy of your knowledge but I believe you misinterpreted what
> Steve wrote.

I didn't think you were... and clearly, I did. 

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   Benjamin Franklin (I didn't know he was a Buddhist)

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