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Re: caching dns lookups



Dani,

Indeed I am confused - or else I wouldn't have asked the question in the first
place. I understand from your answer that my guest about resolv.conf was correct
- it has to point to myself.

But what about the rest of it? How do I configure named to query my favorite DNS
server?

Dan.

> 
> Dan,
> You are a bit confused. The resolv.conf is for the ip stack
> (gethostbyname) to know how to search. You point it to your bind process
> by configuring nameserver 127.0.0.1 .
> Dani
> 
> On Wed, 29 Aug 2001, Baruch Even wrote:
> 
> > 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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