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Re: caching dns lookups
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- Subject: Re: caching dns lookups
- From: Baruch Even <baruch(at-nospam)ev-en.org>
- Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2001 21:30:25 +0300
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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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