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- From: ajudge@maths.tcd.ie (Alan Judge)
- Subject: Re: DNS name servers
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.181339.17030@maths.tcd.ie>
- Organization: Dept. of Maths, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.
- References: <Bzx9r5.FDo@gator.use.com>
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 18:13:39 GMT
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- larry@gator.use.com (Larry Snyder) writes:
- >We are using a cached name server (it works fine, and it appears
- >that as the machine is up and running for a couple of days, it
- >really gets faster since I assume the name to IP addresses are
- >in the cache verses requiring a lookup via the DNS - does anyone
- >know of a good book that explains how and why this works? and what
- >would be required to run a complete namesever locally).
-
- *The* book on DNS is DNS and BIND, by Albitz and Liu, recently
- published by O'Reilly and Associates. ISBN 1-56592-010-4
-
- It explains everything you could want to know about DNS.
- --
- Alan Judge ajudge@maths.tcd.ie a.k.a. amjudge@dsg.cs.tcd.ie +353-1-7021782
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- "The path of my life is strewn with cowpats from the devils' own herd."
- -- Edmund Blackadder II
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