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At some point hitherto, Rob Ransbottom hath spake thusly:
> > DNS servers? I've seen a number of people do that, and I've always felt
> > that that was pointless. The only external nameservers your nameserver 
> > needs to know about are the root nameservers.
> 
> Yeah, but why heat up a hot spot?

Because that's how DNS is INTENDED to work.  You needn't worry about
overloading the root servers; they can handle the load.  By using
them, each time you look up a name in a particular domain, you do only
one short query to the root servers, and they refer you to the right
name server for that domain.  Most of the queries they perform will be
cached in memory, so performance is good.  The root servers are
maintained such that they're operating at a little less than half
capacity.

Plus, during the short time I used them, I always found M1's DNS
servers to be slow.  And when I have a problem with MY DNS server
(which is basically never), I have only myself to rely upon to fix the
problem.  I don't need to wait for them to fix it...


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