Hosts/dns contention in FBSD 5.4

[Malcolm Kay]

On Wed, 5 Oct 2005 11:06 am, Jeremy Bogan wrote:
> You could try running a caching DNS server locally, DjbDNS is
> simple to setup and get going.
>

Yes, I have thought that maybe a local simple caching dns 
server would help; and if I can't otherwise fix the problem 
I'll give it a go. And I appreciate your suggestion of 
DjbDNS.

It does seem however that this should not be necessary.

Thanks,
Malcolm Kay

> On 05/10/2005, at 1:20 AM, Malcolm Kay wrote:
> > ...
> > But if the internet connection breaks -- e.g. the routers
> > crash or the ISP connection fails for some reason then
> > trying to ssh into the machine from another local machine is
> > a problem -- either timing out our taking a very very long
> > time.
> > ...