On Sun, Oct 15, 2000 at 09:14:23PM +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I've installed the bind and caching-nameserver packages and also modified
> /etc/resolv.conf to use the local nameserver, because I want to have a
> caching nameserver. This works fine, BUT it seems to be slower than when I
> use the nameservers of my dial-up provider. I suspect this is because bind
> looks up names/adresses in the root-servers, and not in the nameserver of my
> provider.
>
> How do I have to setup bind, so that it only uses the NS of my provider?
Set resolve.conf up as follows:
search localdomain
nameserver 127.0.0.1
nameserver <ip of ISP's name server>
nameserver <ip of ISP's secondary name server>
where localdomain is your local domain.
Set up host.conf:
order hosts,bind
multi on
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