is bind needed at all?

[Kevin Darcy]

Larry Dalrymple wrote:

> Hi
> I am using dynamic dns to have mydomain.net pointed to my own box.
> Do I need to be running dns/bind to run my own mailserver to mydomain.net
> also ?
>
> Or should I be running a name caching only  named.conf ?

  For performance, it's generally a good idea to have a local caching
nameserver running on mail servers, web servers, or any other type of server
that's going to be issuing DNS queries regularly.

But it's not a *requirement*.


- Kevin