Re: [gentoo-user] caching DNS the Gentoo way?

[michael higgins]

On Sat, 10 Dec 2005 10:42:22 +1030
Shawn Haggett <podge@××××××××.com> wrote:

> michael higgins wrote:
>
> >Hello, all. Need a clue, here.
> >
> >I've found that it'll often takes longer to get DNS resolution than content over my connection, so I thought a caching DNS server the way to go. With that in mind, I installed BIND.
> >
> >I couldn't find anything like a quickie Gentoo example of this minimal use of the application, so on starting /etc/init.d/named, there was first an error about a missing /etc/bind/named.conf.
> >
> >I Googled around a bit and found something to start with, watched the syslog messages and tweaked it, finally managing to get named to run. The problem is, I'm still not convinced that I've got it set up correctly. From what I understand (right or wrong, IDK), I should only have to look up something once, then that info is available locally until I reboot. Or, like that...
> >
> >
> Check your /etc/resolv.conf file. Make sure it lists your local machine
> as a nameserver. Otherwise your system will ignore it and just use
> whatever sever is listed in there. Also be careful, if you use DHCP on a
> network or anything, it might be rewriting the resolv.conf file to have
> the nameserver entries that are gotten from DHCP.

Okay. I don't use DHCP. I edited /etc/resolv.conf to take out the ISP nameservers and put 'localhost' in their place. Do I need to restart something to make this change take effect?

>
> What sort of set-up is this? Is this a single machine by itself
> connected to the internet,

Just a single machine behind a router/firewall to DSL.

> or is this part of a network? If it's part of
> a network, do you want it to also cache all the queries for other
> clients on the network?
>

Just for this box.


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