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Re: bind



Hi,

ok, perhaps your are right for a single user machine. But the moment you
have even the smallest of a network, it makes sense. Also, why should bind
eat up megs of memory ? Besides that, configureing dialup not to connect
doesn't solve that reverse-lookup problem.

Schlomo

On Sat, 16 Jan 1999, Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo wrote:

> On Fri, 15 Jan 1999, S. Schapiro (nessy) wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I think everybody should install bind. It is very easy and solves a lot of
> > NS related problems (especially those reverse lookups that trigger the
> > dialup when not having bind).
> 
> What for? BIND will eat megs of my precious memory for what? Storing info
> that I do not need when I'm disconnected and which is avalible immediately
> when I'm connected? 
> 
> About dialup triggering - so configure your diald or whatever not to
> bother with those requests. Installing BIND just for it seems to me a bit
> of overkill.
> 
> I'm not talking here of security risk of running unneeded service - more
> services means more risk, as the security is determined by weakest
> component.
> -- 
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