[SATLUG] Home DNS Caching

[Jonathan Hull]

Couldn't you just install bind on your local machine and point the
first DNS server in /etc/resolve.conf to 127.0.0.1?

On 8/3/07, Robert Pearson <e2eiod at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 8/3/07, Sean Carolan <scarolan at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 8/3/07, David Power <dpower at hal-pc.org> wrote:
> > > I switched to OpenDns.com a while back which fulfills the need without
> > > having to run another box, its free and much faster than my ISP's.
> > >
> > I don't the OpenDNS typosquatting.  Personally I'm opposed to the idea
> > of my DNS server filtering my queries.  Paul Vixie has some
> > interesting comments on opendns:
> >
> > http://lists.oarci.net/pipermail/dns-operations/2006-July/000806.html
> > --
>
> I asked this list, and others, about OpenDNS after reading an article
> listing it as one of the top 25 Web sites to watch of 2007.
> The original PC World article:
> "25 Web Sites to Watch"
> <<http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,132787-page,3-c,internetnetworking/article.html#opendns>>
> [article excerpt]
> "OpenDNS
> One reason the Web sometimes feels poky, even when you use broadband,
> is the Internet's Domain Name System. When you type a URL (such as
> www.pcworld.com) into your browser, DNS servers must translate that
> alphanumeric information into a numeric IP address (such as
> 70.42.185.10) that Web servers and your PC can understand. Typically
> your ISP's DNS servers handle the translation work.
> But OpenDNS speeds up the translation (called "name resolution") by
> handling the process on its own high-speed DNS servers. The service
> includes other cool time-savers, as well, such as the ability to
> create keyboard shortcuts. For example, instead of typing
> www.pcworld.com each time, you might arrange to type in the letter p
> and jump immediately to your favorite online destination."
> [end excerpt]
>
> I used it for about two weeks and then it did the "typosquatting"
> thing on a Web site that was not misspelled by me but was unavailable.
> The site OpenDNS put me on was a clear fraud as mentioned in the
> article above from Sean Carolan.
> I removed OpenDNS.
>
> OpenDNS was faster than my ISP DNS by far.
> About 70% of the people replied favorably to my question about using it.
>
> I am now looking at building my own DNS server.
> My preference would be to install DD-WRT in a Linksys router to use.
> This method can be more difficult to get working for novices like me
> than installing on a regular machine.
> What do people do for DNS services on their laptop when off the home network?
> Leave their DNS server on all the time?
> --
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