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>Bill Parker wrote:
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>> At 11:07 AM 8/12/99 -0400, you wrote:
>> Ummmm, i'm a little confused here, I don't admin my own DNS (UUNET does
>> that for me), is there a difference between DNS and a caching nameserver?
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>No. DNS most likely runs as named (also called BIND) on your unix box.
>If you're set up as caching only, you also want to have the forwarders
>set, and also alsways forward first.
ok, named is not currently running on my Linux box, and I have the ORA
DNS/Bind Book, does it show how to set up a caching only DNS (for local
stuff), or where should I look for this info?
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>That way, your caching only nameserver will never try to resolve names
>itself that are not in its cache, but will always ask UUNET first.
>Chances are that UUNET's nameservers are much, much faster than yours,
>so names are resolved very quickly.
Yeah, but when UUnet breaks down once in a while (always at the MOST
inopportune times), DNS lookups croak, so a caching DNS w/forwarding
makes the best sense...Doe the book cover this stuff?
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>> if so, will a caching nameserver speed up web queries by the machines
>> who get their net access via the linux box (NAT)?
>Yes.
That sounds like what I want to do...hmmmm!
-Bill
