On Fri, 2019-10-18 at 18:22 -0700, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > I renamed it and rebooted. Named is working normally, > so I got away with it. Are you using GeoIP based rules in your named.conf file? GeoIP can be used to serve different DNS answers to people based on their location. You can already do this by IPs, but GeoIP would mean *you* didn't have to work out the IP ranges for different parts of the world. However, I can't really see this being useful (either technique), unless people are querying *your* DNS server for your your IP. Which, they usually won't be doing. They'll be using a public DNS server, which probably didn't get its cached records from your DNS server running on your PC. If you were a big multinational (e.g. you were Google), with servers all over the world, and had masses of traffice, and you wanted to segregate traffic so local users used their most local servers, spreading the load around most efficiently, then this kind of thing would be useful. Of course GeoIP could be used for other things, but I think GeoIP and BIND are a waste of time for the average network. I wish we had an *easy* to control location service for desktops. It's annoying that any time I look for products online, I get an interstate hardware shop that I have to customise to check the stock of my local stores, instead (my ISP, like many, is nation-wide, and inaccurate in how they identify the locations for their client IPs). And on the other hand, there are plenty of other websites that want to track my location who don't deserve that data. Yes, there are some browser plug-ins for this, but they're not that convenient, you have to know about them to look for them, and they don't cover all situations. For instance, your computer could set your clock for you properly, fully automatically, if it knew where you were. -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1062.1.2.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon Sep 30 14:19:46 UTC 2019 x86_64 Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx