Re: Bind as a chaching nameserver

2006-04-27 Thread Richard Collyer
Denis R. wrote: http://cr.yp.to/djbdns/guarantee.html Richard, besides simple you want a _secure_ caching name server. Yes, you can type named_enable in rc.conf and be done with it, just don't forget to periodically check the security updates web page for BIND exploits. Thanks for the advice

Re: Bind as a chaching nameserver

2006-04-26 Thread bsd
Hello, I've recently been getting a lot of trouble with SpamAssassin performing a lot of rDNS lookups which is causing network issues (timeouts etc to DNS servers). I am trying to install BIND (or djbdns) as a simple caching nameserver. Just to take some of the load off the networks DNS

Re: Bind as a chaching nameserver

2006-04-26 Thread Martin Hepworth
Richard just set the forwarders to another nameserver in the named.conf and that's it.. this will speed up SA massively. -- martin On 4/25/06, Richard Collyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I've recently been getting a lot of trouble with SpamAssassin performing a lot of rDNS lookups

Re: Bind as a chaching nameserver

2006-04-26 Thread Richard Collyer
On Wed, April 26, 2006 8:05 am, Martin Hepworth wrote: Richard just set the forwarders to another nameserver in the named.conf and that's it.. this will speed up SA massively. -- Yep I've set the named.conf up correctly but when I do ndc start it tells me that it is not found. I'll do

Re: Bind as a chaching nameserver

2006-04-26 Thread Riemer Palstra
On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 09:27:27AM +0100, Richard Collyer wrote: Yep I've set the named.conf up correctly but when I do ndc start it tells me that it is not found. With BIND 9.3.1, you'd probably want 'rndc', but even then, '/etc/rc.d/named start' would do it for you, if you have

Re: Bind as a chaching nameserver

2006-04-26 Thread DAve
Richard Collyer wrote: Hello, I've recently been getting a lot of trouble with SpamAssassin performing a lot of rDNS lookups which is causing network issues (timeouts etc to DNS servers). I am trying to install BIND (or djbdns) as a simple caching nameserver. Just to take some of the load

Re: Bind as a chaching nameserver

2006-04-26 Thread Denis R.
http://cr.yp.to/djbdns/guarantee.html Richard, besides simple you want a _secure_ caching name server. Yes, you can type named_enable in rc.conf and be done with it, just don't forget to periodically check the security updates web page for BIND exploits. Regards! Richard Collyer wrote: Hello,

Re: Bind as a chaching nameserver

2006-04-26 Thread Miguel Ramos
AND make sure that either /etc/resolv.conf doesn't exist or that it contains a single nameserver line like this: nameserver 127.0.0.1 otherwise your local nameserver isn't queried. You see, there's really nothing else to do on a standard installation of freebsd... 1- named_enable=YES in

Bind as a chaching nameserver

2006-04-25 Thread Richard Collyer
Hello, I've recently been getting a lot of trouble with SpamAssassin performing a lot of rDNS lookups which is causing network issues (timeouts etc to DNS servers). I am trying to install BIND (or djbdns) as a simple caching nameserver. Just to take some of the load off the networks DNS

Re: Bind as a chaching nameserver

2006-04-25 Thread Derek Ragona
For a caching nameserver simply follow the instructions in named.conf. Enable named in rc.conf, and start the daemon. -Derek At 05:50 PM 4/25/2006, Richard Collyer wrote: Hello, I've recently been getting a lot of trouble with SpamAssassin performing a lot of rDNS lookups which is