[SATLUG] Home DNS Caching

[Brad Knowles]

On 8/3/07, Robert J Hewitt wrote:

>  Sorry to jump in on this but cn you run a home DNS server on a system
>  running IPcop (my firewall) and if I am not running a web server,
>  mailserver or any other type but just a home network is the DNS worth
>  the extra load on a system really

You can run a home DNS server on just about anything.  BIND works 
perfectly well on incredibly low-end machines, like a Soekris net4501 
Flash memory-based SBC 486-class system (about the size of a 
paperback book).  If your system can run any kind of a firewall, it 
should have more than enough horsepower to also run a caching 
nameserver.

And yes, I do believe it's well worth while.

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