DNS caching locally ...

[Dan Nelson]

In the last episode (Oct 07), Kiffin Gish said:
> 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.
> 
> Yes but isn't this a bit of an overkill when all I want is local dns
> caching and nothing else?

Isn't what overkill?  Edit two files and start named; a caching named
isn't going to take up more than a couple MB of memory.

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	Dan Nelson
	dnelson at allantgroup.com