lwresd howto

[Mark Foster]

I need something I can run locally to intercept and cache DNS responses.
BIND is not the answer (too heavyweight) and dnsmasq doesn't appear to 
cache.

nscd is what I'm used to on Linux but it doesn't seem to be in FreeBSD. 
Something called cached but I don't see it on the systems I'm working 
with (5.4, 6.1, 6.2 yea I know out-of-date so don't even say it).

So I am considering lwresd(8)

Can I use lwresd ? The documentation for how to do so are unclear.
I've found:
http://www.isc.org/sw/bind/arm93/Bv9ARM.ch05.html
and reviewed the lwresd(8) man page but there is not a good example of 
how to setup correctly.

Also the ISC doc mention putting lwserver entries into resolv.conf but 
these are not mentioned in resolver(5).

I have tried putting lwserver 127.0.0.1 and nameserver 127.0.0.1 while 
running lwresd but not getting response.

Does some kind soul have this working and can provide some example or 
advice?

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Mark D. Foster, CISSP <mark at foster.cc>  http://mark.foster.cc/