DNS caching locally ...

[Kiffin Gish]

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?

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Kiffin Gish
Gouda, The Netherlands