On 28-Aug-07, at 11:02 PM, Dinesh Joshi wrote:
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.
the BIND caching only nameserver comes by default on most distros,
and is a one-click install that works out of the box - the only thing
you need to do is put 127.0.0.1 in /etc/resolv.conf
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