Tim: > > It can, if your ISP's DNS servers are crap (some are - my last couple of > > ISP's were). Dotan Cohen: > Actually, I suspect that my university's DNS servers are crap. Often > at the university, ten minutes will go by where I cannot reach certain > sites, but others I can reach. Though, that can be because those domains have stupid values in their records that make it difficult for other DNS servers... > > Another advantage is if you run a network of computers. You can > > dispense with messing with the hosts files on all of them. > How much drive space does this occupy? rpm -qi bind Name : bind Relocations: (not relocatable) Version : 9.3.3 Vendor: Red Hat, Inc. Release : 0.1.rc3.fc6 Build Date: Thu 07 Dec 2006 01:53:38 CST Install Date: Fri 08 Dec 2006 15:39:27 CST Build Host: hs20-bc1-5.build.redhat.com Group : System Environment/Daemons Source RPM: bind-9.3.3-0.1.rc3.fc6.src.rpm Size : 2193071 License: BSD-like That's the biggest bit, the rest are just small configuration text files. This e-mail is much bigger than them, byte-wise. -- (Currently running FC4, in case that's important to the thread) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
