[Ham-Mac] Cool Free Utility called namebench

[David Kelly]

On Feb 14, 2012, at 11:50 AM, John Merrill wrote:

> I guess I thought the router controlled the DNS but not.

It *can*. Some routers can be configured as a "forwarding DNS server" which answers what it knows from cache but asks upstream for addresses it doesn't know. An advantage of this would be that you could insert names for your local machines in your own DNS without the rest of the world knowing.

That is what I'm doing with the Mac Mini Server. It is not my router but is my DHCP and DNS server. A little disappointed Apple hasn't integrated DHCP and DNS a bit. Would like static DHCP entries to transparently migrate into DNS. What I don't want is something I've seen in Microsoft shops where a DHCP client replies with its notion of its hostname to the DHCP server which then updates the DNS database. That sets off alarms as being ripe for abuse.

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