which nameservers do you use?

[Bill Campbell]

On Wed, Apr 21, 2004, R. Quenett wrote:
>I have a feeling I'm making this waaay more complicated than it 
>really is (maybe I just don't know the right words) but anyway....
>
>My isp (whose name shall be as invisible to you as their service is 
>to me:) has been playing silly bugger with their nameservers again, 
>changing their addresses arbitrarily and without telling me ahead of 
>time.  So fine, it took me about three minutes to find an unrelated 
>nameserver and get connected again.  I know I can run my own 
>nameserver in a variety of flavors but I was kind of hoping to avoid 
>the maintenance for a while longer if I could.
>
>So my question is does everyone here run their own nameserver or, if 
>not, how do you handle this?

We use our own name servers, and set up dnscache from djbdns on
most machines so they have their own local caching name servers.

Bill
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