In , on 03/04/04 
   at 06:51 PM, os2userl{at}wpusa.dynip.com said:

>* Forwarded (from: o2userl) by mark lewis using timEd 1.10.y2k+. *
>Originally from mark lewis to to-os2userl.
>* Original dated: Thu Mar 04, 16:30



> SS> what are some good public DNS servers that could use instead
> SS> of those from my ISP?

>use Jonathan de Boyne Pollard's DNS stuff... he's the guy that's written
>the OS/2 command line utilities (OS2CLU04), a 32bit cmd replacement and a
>lot of other utils for OS/2... his DNS stuff is great and works a hell of
>a lot better than BIND... in addition, you can run your own server for
>domain name resolution on your internal machines if you desire and you
>/don't/ have to use those silly zone files like bind requires...

>you can check his stuff out at
>http://homepages.tesco.net/~J.deBoynePollard/Softwares/pre-release.html
>and follow back thru the url to get to his homepage and root out more
>info if you like...

>i used to run bind and had to reboot quite often due to bind's allocating
>of memory endlessly and not flushing things as needed and when they timed
>out... JdeBP's stuff feeds over a dozen machines on my network and
>cirrently only consumes some 400k of memory for the dns cache... as at
>least one other has suggested, set up your own dns server and let it do
>the lookups thru the root level servers and down to the server that
>contains the actual info...

>JdeBP's DNS servers are also not affected by "DNS poisoning"... that's
>where a domain may feed you info about another domain that it has no
>control over... this is one of the loopholes that allow for domain
>spoofing where your machine looks up the address of one domain and is
>told by the poison that it is here when it is really there...

>for OS/2, JdeBP's DNS servers are the bee's knees, the cadillac, and the
>best thing out there for this job... hands down, no questions asked...
>try it for your self!

>[note: i'm just a happy user and pretester of JdeBP's software... i am
>not compensated in any way for my endorsements...]

>)\/(ark

Mark,
I find it very difficult to download this tool.  Two of the links are just
bad.  And the third link requires me to "join" the archive.  

Perhaps you have a copy of the file that you can email directly to me?  I
would appreciate it if you can.

TIA,
-Mark


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