Le Lundi 16 Juin 2003 23:00, Jeff Newmiller a écrit : > On Mon, 16 Jun 2003, Jacques Nilo wrote: > > Le Lundi 16 Juin 2003 21:37, M Lu a écrit : > > > By default, Bering is using dnscache and so /etc/resolv.conf has > > > 192.168.1.254. Seems to me that ISP's DNSes are not used at all if you > > > do not change settings in dnscache. dnscache still works because it > > > uses root DNSes. Correct me if I am wrong. > > > > You are right. By default Bering does not use the ISP DNSes since it is > > using - even at the router level - it's own dns resolver that is > > dnscache. That is why you have the nodns statement in the pump conf file. > > If you remove it you should get your ISP DNSes in your resolv.conf > > But why should you ? > > Now that is a question I have puzzled over in the negative... why > _shouldn't_ you? I know it is inconvenient to release a disk image that > has to be configured to start at a nearby upstream cache, but isn't that > more friendly to the root servers? True, you are reducing the pounding on > them by caching your _own_ repeat queries, but if all of us masqueraders > uses our own copies of dnscache then we haven't improved the overloading > situation for the root servers. Why bother them if the answer is nearby? > Perhaps this reconfiguration should be an option in the documentation. > Well this is I guess the paranoid idea behind using dnscache: if you start from the root servers you do not have the risk of using your ISP DNSes which might have been corrupted :-) But you are right this could be explained more clearly in the doc. Basically you remove the nodns in pump and set FORWARDONLY to YES in dnscache http://leaf.sourceforge.net/devel/jnilo/dnscache3.html#AEN113 (There is some info in the doc if you dig in :-) ) Cheers Jacques
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