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From: Michal 'vorner' Vaner <vorner@×××.cz>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] local caching DNS?
Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2008 11:01:55
Message-Id: 20080409110150.GA30378@tarantula.kolej.mff.cuni.cz
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] local caching DNS? by Andrew Gaydenko
1 Hello
2
3 On Wed, Apr 09, 2008 at 02:45:18PM +0400, Andrew Gaydenko wrote:
4 > > On Wed, Apr 09, 2008 at 12:13:40PM +0200, Ralf Stephan wrote:
5 > > > I'm fed up with waiting for ever the same name requests from my
6 > > > browser (and open servers don't cut it either): which DNS cache
7 > > > or caching DNS for simple local installation would you recommend?
8 > >
9 > > I use dnsmasq, can be used as a LAN cache too (by simply allowing
10 > > requests from a given interface). Took me about 30 minutes to
11 > > configure. I asked dhcp to save to resolv.conf.2 and made resolv.conf
12 > > to request from localhost.
13 >
14 > What about permanent (with saving to hdd) caching? It seems like pdnsd
15 > do this thing only...
16
17 Does not seem to matter here much, since I suspend, not turn off. But
18 anyway, most DNS names should be cached only few hours, half a day or so
19 (well, there are some that have week long timeouts, but not many).
20
21 --
22 chown -R us $BASE
23
24 Michal 'vorner' Vaner

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