[plug] System slowdown help

[Craig Ringer]

> Possible.  Bind is a real pain to set up, though. I'm not even sure it's
> possible if you have dynamically assigned IPs.

Umm... I've got to say that bind is IMHO really quite easy to set up, 
especially if you decide to be slack and use webmin. There's a really 
good webmin module for bind.

Its well worth the (small) trouble on a small network - having proper 
DNS etc makes it much nicer to work on. I use DHCP with statically 
assigned addresses ( I use dhcp because we also have transcient clients 
eg people's laptops ) plus bind. It works very well, esp when combined 
with handy things like htb traffic shaping/control.

As for BIND with dynamic IPs - yeah, I'm pretty sure it can be done but 
I seem to remember reading that its a bit of a kludge at this point. I 
haven't tried it myself yet.

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