OK. Our Network people are nearing the final stages of designing the network for our new production system. A question has come up about DNS. Currently the DNS for our company runs on one of our production Alpha Servers (DU 4.0F), but they are saying they want to move it off of the production servers--into a different network (for security reasons). So my two questions are as follows. If we do move the DNS to another box--what kind of specs should it have? Does it need to be as mighty as our ES40s? Or would a little Alphastation 200 suffice (or somewhere in between?). Secondly, is there any truth to there "sercurity" concerns about having the DNS on a production server? And lastly...I don't really know much about DNS, so if when we either install it on another server, is this something that has to be downloaded and installed? Is it just part of the operating system? What is BIND--is that something different from DNS or part of it? Geez...thinking about it, I really am clueless. Oh well...
Jonathan Williams
UNIX Systems Administrator
The Shubert Organization, Inc.
Received on Mon May 21 2001 - 15:48:41 NZST