Concise Guide to DNS and BIND, The

Chapter 10. DNS and Dial-Up Connections

BIND has a tendency to want to talk to nameservers every now and then. Quite often in fact. If you use a dial-up connection to the Internet and pay by the minute for your connection time, you're wasting money. Many companies connect to the Internet by auto-dialing ISDN or analog modems. These ISDN and analog modems can be connected to ISDN network routers, Linux machines, or other inexpensive UNIX machines used as firewalls or ISDN routers. The goal, then, is to minimize the connection time (at least before and after working hours) but still allow BIND, and people, to work.

Keeping your dial-up connection time as low as possible is important, but it also is important to note that if your server is master ...