Caching DNS for dialup

Jonathon McKitrick jcm at FreeBSD-uk.eu.org
Tue Nov 30 13:06:37 PST 2004


On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 09:00:03AM +0000, Martin Hepworth wrote:
: Jonathon
: 
: presumably all the nameserver is doing is forwarding requests to your 
: ISP, as  set in the named.boot file? also I guess you're running bind in 
:  which case it will cache automatically.

I believe so.  I set up a caching nameserver from the handbook.

: probably best to just have it running on the gateway then it will cache 
: requests from all clients. have the clients point to the gw as the 
: nameserver in /etc/resolv.conf.

Oh, I might have missed that.  I'll double check.


jm
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