DNS caching locally ...

Dan Nelson dnelson at allantgroup.com
Fri Oct 7 10:44:46 PDT 2005


In the last episode (Oct 07), Kiffin Gish said:
> I understand that it is possible to speed up surfing, especially
> using a wireless Internet connection, by using DNS caching locally.
> This has to do with enabling the named daemon or something, but I
> understand that there are some restrictions.
> 
> Is there a simple recipe explaining how to do this?

Basically, edit /etc/rc.conf and add named_enable="YES", run
"/etc/rc.d/named start" (you only have to do this if you don't want to
reboot), then edit /etc/resolv.conf and add a "nameserver 127.0.0.1"
line in front of any nameserver lines you may already have.

If you are behind a firewall that blocks DNS requests except to
specific servers, you may have to edit /etc/namedb/named.conf and
uncomment/edit the forwarders block to tell named to forward requests
to those servers.

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson at allantgroup.com


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