On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 10:50:25AM +0100, Dr. Wolfgang Beneicke wrote: > Chris, > > I'd be happy to live with a certain delay in name resolutions rather > than having to maintain a static name server database myself. > > Agreed, IMHO the pipeline would be much more practical if it would serve > coffee as well. But it is a router, not a server. > > How will you fill up the local DNS then? You could type in all names > that you know you'll be using. Then there are trillions that you don't > know yet. AFAIK there is no "DNS cache" or self-learning DNS at the > moment that would put any resolved name into a list. > Even if your local list has stabilized after some time how do you cope > with IP address changes? How do you notice? For proper updates you'd > have to receive zone list updates from your provider regularily. Which > he's not likely to do. > It's easy enough to set up a DNS server on a Linux box (in exactly the same way that your ISP does), that's what DNS is all about. The router has quite a powerful processor and thus should be equally capable of running 'proper' DNS if Ascend had written one for it. As it's a router then DNS is one of the things one might well expect it to do, more likely than coffee making anyway. There are routers (even quite cheap ones) which can be set up to provide proper DNS. -- Chris Green (chris at areti.co.uk) Home: chris at isbd.co.uk Work: cgreen at bcs.org.uk WWW: http://www.isbd.co.uk/ ++ Ascend Users Mailing List ++ To unsubscribe: send unsubscribe to ascend-users-request at bungi.com Archives: http://www.nexial.com/mailinglists/