What are DNS advantages?

[Lori700698]

I played around with this and realized I need to read up some more on it, but I want to know what is the real advantage of doing your own DNS on your server? For now I forwarded my site to my server, masked it, and pointed it to the folder I want to use and it works great. Just curious if this is something I really should educate myself in or not!

Thank you in advance for the in site!
Lori

[HermanAB]

Convenience and speed.

Cheers,

Herman

[pdtpatrick]

dns resolves names to IP addresses and make its very convenience when you have lots of servers. However i dont know how it would help you when you only have one computer. I mean your browsing might be a bit faster but you'll spend a lot of time doing all that. Why dont you just use openDNS.. i believe thats the name.