DNS caching locally ...

Bob Middaugh bob.middaugh at comcast.net
Fri Oct 7 11:36:37 PDT 2005


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org 
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Kiffin
Gish
> Sent: Friday, October 07, 2005 2:32 PM
> To: Dan Nelson
> Cc: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: DNS caching locally ...
> 
> On Fri, 2005-10-07 at 12:44 -0500, Dan Nelson wrote:
> > 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.
> > 
> 
> Yes but isn't this a bit of an overkill when all I want is 
> local dns caching and nothing else?
> 
> --
> Kiffin Gish
> Gouda, The Netherlands


Well, you do need a DNS server to do the caching, no?  Are you
referring to the client resolver cache? 

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-dns.
html

Bob


 
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