[SATLUG] Home DNS Caching

[Brad Knowles]

On 8/4/07, Daniel J. Givens wrote:

>>  What do people do for DNS services on their laptop when off the home
>>  network?
>>  Leave their DNS server on all the time?
>
>  If I'm out and using my laptop for more than a few minutes, I typically
>  VPN back to my home network[2] and use my DNS server at home. If I'm
>  just doing a quick connect/disconnect to check email or look up
>  something, I just use the DNS server given to me via DHCP.

You could also run a DNS server on your laptop.  BIND doesn't care 
what type of machine it's running on, so long as it's either vaguely 
Unix-like, or can be made sufficiently Unix-like through 
compatibility libraries (such as they do for running BIND on Windows).

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