bind (wasRe: [plug] Mandrake & Printing)

[Christian]

John Summerfield wrote:
> 
> > Bret Busby wrote:
> > > Answers:
> > > On my computer (RH 5.2) bind-8.1.2-5
> > > On firewall/gateway (RH 6.0) bind-8.2-6
> >
> > Are these DNS servers doing anything useful?  I'll assume the answer is
> > 'no'...
> 
> You'd be wrong.

Yeah, you're right -- I could be wrong.  That's why I stated that it was
an assumption.  Still, it's a fair assumption don't you think?

1. As I understand it, the network is a small internal network with a
dialup connection.  The only use of a DNS server would be a caching-only
server and, even then, only on the gateway machine.  Therefore my
assumption has to be at least half right.

2. Bret wasn't aware that he was even running the DNS servers... it
would therefore seem questionable that they are doing anything useful
(although, of course, someone else may have set them up but they appear
to have set it up badly considering there is no need for a DNS server to
be running on the internal workstation).