An alternative is to install djbdns from pkgsrc and configure dnscaching,
then it won't matter what your ISP's DNS server is.

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On Tue, 14 Oct 2003, James K. Lowden wrote:

> On Mon, 13 Oct 2003 14:55:09 -0700 (PDT), JS <oghistorian@yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > I do not know
> > the name server of my ISP.  Is there anyway that the
> > computer can autoconfig this, or do I have to check
> > with my ISP?
>
> (As a technical matter, you don't need to use the DNS your ISP provides.
> You can use any DNS on the internet, as long as you know its address,
> which you could look up in whois.  As a practical matter, your ISP's DNS
> is "closer" to you and will probably give you the best performance.)
>
> If you don't want/need/like to get your ISP's DNS addresses, NetBSD does
> have a self-configuring alternative: join the system and run your own DNS.
>  DNS servers know how to find each other; you just point resolv.conf at
> localhost.
>
> 	http://www.netbsd.org/guide/en/chap-dns.html
>
> See Section 12.5, or skip it and do this:
>
> # grep ^named /etc/defaults/rc.conf \
>  	|sed -Ee's/NO/YES/;
> 		 s!\"\".+$!\"-c /etc/namedb/named.conf\"!
> 		' >> /etc/rc.conf
>
> That will put this line in rc.conf:
> 	named=YES  named_flags="-c /etc/namedb/named.conf"
>
> Then:
> 	# /etc/rc.c/named start
>
> check with
> 	$ cat /var/run/named.pid
>
> to see named's process id, and
> 	$ tail /var/log/messages
>
> to see the good/bad news.
>
> --jkl
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