[brlug-general] OpenDNS?

[Dustin Puryear]

I'm sorry, but I just don't see much point in running a DNS server
program (e.g., BIND) on anything but a DNS server. To me, that's just
adding cruft to a box. My thought process is to always streamline what
runs on a box, not to add services to it.

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willhill wrote:
> There's not much that's Windows like here.  It's a valuable and useful 
> service, it's not installed and run by default, it has reasonable default 
> values and there are plenty of alternative packages in the repositories.  The 
> unnecessary services that Windows is famous for are not valuable, are 
> installed by default without your knowledge and are difficult to turn off, so 
> you need another operating system to filter what your Windows computer sees.  
> If you know of any problems with Debian's version of BIND, I'd like to hear 
> about them.  
> 
> On Friday 21 September 2007 10:08 am, Dustin Puryear wrote:
>> Joey-
>>
>> I would argue against this particular angle. It seems to me that it goes
>> under "running unnecessary services on your computer", which is already
>> a vice that Windows and most Linux distros have. Thoughts?
> 
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