Bind as a chaching nameserver

[Derek Ragona]

For a caching nameserver simply follow the instructions in 
named.conf.  Enable named in rc.conf, and start the daemon.

         -Derek


At 05:50 PM 4/25/2006, Richard Collyer wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I've recently been getting a lot of trouble with SpamAssassin performing a 
>lot of rDNS lookups which is causing network issues (timeouts etc to DNS 
>servers).
>
>I am trying to install BIND (or djbdns) as a simple caching nameserver. 
>Just to take some of the load off the networks DNS servers (my ISPs).
>
>However I am having trouble finding a good tutorial to follow.
>
>I've looked at 
>http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-dns.html 
>but its mainly going on about being a nameserver which is not what I am 
>after, wanting to keep it more simple than that.
>
>[root at brian:/usr/local/etc] $ named -v
>BIND 9.3.1
>
>Can anyone suggest me a good tutorial to follow, I've googled but mostly 
>they are for debain/redhat and some of the commands and files are different.
>
>Cheers
>Richard
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