Re: [SLUG] Newbie Sysadmin's Journal

From: Paul M Foster (paulf@quillandmouse.com)
Date: Wed Jul 11 2007 - 12:02:55 EDT


Chris Mathey wrote:

<snip>

> If they offer to slave your DNS then that solves the redundancy issue.
>
> If you are authoritative then all that means is the internet root DNS
> servers list your server and johncompanies.com slave as the resolver for
> your domain(s). You enter this information via your domain registrar.
> You will still need local resolution of internet address and should ask
> johncompanies.com what servers to use.
>

Okay, I got the authoritative and slaving thing. But "local resolution"?
By "local" do you mean at my server on the internet? If so, I assume
that I'd set it up so that any query originating on my internet box
would be resolved by the DNS on that box.

<snip>

> If you skip amavis then use the daemonized version of
> spamassassin smapd/spamc. Performance is better for higher volume.
>

Yeah, they nearly insist on this, since SA sucks CPU if you run it
standalone.

Paul

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