Indranil, Sorry about asking a few trivial questions, but here goes anyway:
a)You have suggested putting in the current nameservers in the "forwarders" section. Which file has this section? Is it /etc/resolv.conf? b)You have also suggested putting in 127.0.0.1 as a nameserver in resolv.conf. I have a DSL connection that requires a username and password. My understanding (there's a high likelihood that my understanding is wrong in the areas related to networking) is that as a result of some negotiation between my ISP and my computer, the pppoe system causes a modification to my resolv.conf file. Does this mean that the next time I connect to the internet, my changes will be lost? If so, is there a way to make these changes persistent? c)I also turned on the 'nscd' daemon based on a brief note I found on the internet. Will this help and result in a speedup, or is this just a wastage of CPU and is better turned off. Thanks for the help. Prashant Verma On 5/17/05, Indranil Das Gupta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, 2005-05-16 at 09:02 +0530, Prashant Verma wrote: > <snipped> > > > > Is it possible to configure the system in such a way that once a name > > has been resolved, it stays in a cache and is picked up from the cache > > immediately on subsequent requests? > > Yes, it is called a caching nameserver. FC3 bundled it. Look under the > "DNS Name Server" option after invoking system-config-packages from a > terminal window and install it if its not already installed. > > Caching nameserver setup is rather trivial. In the forwarders section > Put in your current name servers as forwarders and set you localhost > address (e.g. 127.0.0.1) as nameserver in your /etc/resolv.conf. > > Start | restart your nameservers using /etc/init.d/named [start|restart] > > hth, > -indra. > > > Prashant Verma > > Indranil Das Gupta > L2C2 Technologies > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > Phone : (0)-98300-20971 > Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] > WWW : http://www.l2c2.org > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > L2C2 : Innovations for India > > -- > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body > "unsubscribe ilug-cal" and an empty subject line. > FAQ: http://www.ilug-cal.org/node.php?id=3 > -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body "unsubscribe ilug-cal" and an empty subject line. FAQ: http://www.ilug-cal.org/node.php?id=3
