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Re: [seul-edu] 100% replacement of WinNT systems with Samba for schools

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Subject: Re: [seul-edu] 100% replacement of WinNT systems with Samba for schools
From: Les Richardson <richl@mail.tfsd.sk.ca>
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 00:49:42 -0600
Delivery-Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 02:47:15 -0400
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>Actually, squid does proxy / web caching, not dns caching as mentioned.

You're right. Squid does have several DNS helper processes running so that
caching doesn't block. All DNS servers will do caching. We run them both
internally (for round robin DNS lookups of the 3 caches we run to load
share workstations) and externally. (ie. tfsd.sk.ca)

>DNS caching can be done by running bind on the server (which will also
>decrease the amount of bandwidth being used).

References:
- Re: [seul-edu] 100% replacement of WinNT systems with Samba for schools
  - From: Michael Viron <mviron@wsdo.sao.uwf.edu>

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