On Sun, 2007-08-26 at 21:57 +0530, Rony wrote: > Hello All, > > We were discussing DNS caching and the bind configuration. However, bind > is a DNS server whereas we only want a DNS cache that updates itself > automatically. Maybe I understood it wrong but on the net I found this > link for DNS caching. It uses a package called dnsmasq. It works on my > system. First time I do dig google.com it takes 42 ms. second time 2 sec. > > http://ubuntu.wordpress.com/2006/08/02/local-dns-cache-for-faster-browsing/
Ronny is right. BIND is waay too heavy if you want just a caching DNS server. There are lots of smaller, less resource intensive servers for Linux. -- Regards, Dinesh A. Joshi -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
