Using dnscache locally with FBSD 6.x

[RW]

On Tuesday 01 August 2006 13:41, Mark Powell wrote:

> That means I need to replace resolv.conf early in the boot with the
> addresses of remote dns caches:
>...
> and then in dnscache's svscan startup file I can then put it back to:
>
> -----
> nameserver 127.0.0.1

The nameservers in resolv.conf are tried in order. You can simply put 
127.0.0.1 first, followed by the other servers. This only adds a few seconds 
to the startup, it not like the timeouts of several minutes that you get when 
no nameserver is available.


If your problem is that the external nameservers come from dhcp then just add 
the line 

        prepend domain-name-servers 127.0.0.1;

to /etc/dhclient.conf