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Re: caching dns lookups



Drop bind, it's too big and does way too much for you to bother with it.

Check out pdnsd, it's a caching dns server intended for a dial up
computer, it will cache dns entries between computer shutdown, something
that bind doesn't do, and is trivial to setup.

I believe there is an RPM for it.

* Dan Kenigsberg <danken@cs.Technion.AC.IL> [010829 19:55]:
> Hi.
> 
> I have RH7, and I tried to configure DNS caching.
> Excuse me, but I drownd in documentation and configuration files.
> 
> I've installed caching-nameserver rpm and I am running `named'.
> 
> I'm guessing that resolv.conf should contain a line as
> 
> 	nameserver 127.0.0.1
> 
> so that bind (?) would know to ask localhost for names, and that some
> vague named configuration file should contain the remote dns I wish to
> access.
> 
> Is my guess correct? If not - why what I did does not work (repeated requests
> still take half-seconds)? Why dns caching is not the common configuration for
> linux workstations? Or is it?
> 
> Dan.
> 
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