[ILUG] OT - DNS

[Robert Sweetnam]

Rick Moen wrote:
> Quoting Philip Creevy (tiger98 at iol.ie):
>   
> My own nameserver already proclaims itself authoritative for a number of
> advertising and spying-on-the-user (or "metrics", depending on your 
> degree of cynicism) domains I have absolutely no use for: 
Excellent advice and information,

Indeed there was another thread on ILUG recently, again about OpenDNS, 
where Colm Buckley mentioned that if you have a broadband connection 
there is no reason not to run your own DNS server (resolver).

As Rick mentioned, one of the main advantages is that you can block 
certain URL's. Of course this involves some initial setup but on top of 
everything else, running a caching DNS server at home will be 
educational to say the least and of course quicker.

Cheers
Robert