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Re: [cobalt-users] is dns that important?
- Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] is dns that important?
- From: Wayne Sagar <wsagar@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat Mar 17 02:38:02 2001
- List-id: Mailing list for users to share thoughts on Cobalt products. <cobalt-users.list.cobalt.com>
At 04:09 AM 3/17/01 -0500, you wrote:
>"Wayne Sagar" <wsagar@xxxxxxxx> On Saturday, March 17, 2001 3:25 AM wrote
>
>> At 11:29 AM 3/15/01 -0800, you wrote:
>> >To host websites does one have to use DNS or can you
>> >have clients change their ip address to that of your
>> >server? What is the advantage of DNS?
>>
>> Since getting hit with a Bind attack, I have tried, with total success,
>running my name based server with the DNS service turned off.. It works exactly
>as it did when I thought I needed to make all the records for each site... At
>least with the name based system.. it works completely fine (all services seem
>Well, guys I'll tell you what there has to be a nameserver and likely two
>someplace!
>Otherwise how would your name get translated to an IP address that further gets
>translated to a MAC address for your Ethernet port!
It's turned off on my RaQ... I'm in a server farm.. of course, they have DNS pointing to my machine for every virt on it.. Therein, likely, lies the explanation...
But *if* I don't need it turned on to make my server work and it is correctly handling all requests to the verts.. mail... GUI etc... what ta heck.. leave it checked off...
WS