On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 11:47 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, 2010-11-18 at 11:39 +0530, Raja Subramanian wrote: >> On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 9:35 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> > actually the best solution is to run one's own cacheing only >> nameserver >> > - I have been too lazy to set this up so far ... >> >> Should not take more than 15 mins of your time to setup a >> local DNS server. Â Suggest you do this and solve this issue >> once and for all. > > problem is I am always travelling and have to keep recofiguring stuff to > accomodate the (often weird) setups in places I have to connect my > laptop. Anyway, one of these days I will do a yum install cacheing only > dns. I do not think it will take as long as 15 minutes.
In Debian I use dnsmasq and resolvconf packages. Add entries to /etc/hosts for "your servers" (hopefully they have static IP addresses). dnsmasq/resolvconf will take care of the rest. Irrespective of your locations your specific servers will resolve properly and for the rest the network's DNS servers will come into play. Alternately, run bind as a cacheing server (as you have indicated). In most distros, you need to install the package and it pretty much works out of the box. Beyond the downloand/install time it should be less than a couple of minutes to activate the service. -- Arun Khan _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
