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Subject: Re: Caching only DNS server
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"Art Neilson, KH7PZ" wrote:
> 
> Is there a good doc somewhere which describes how to set up
> a caching only DNS server?  I'm running FreeBSD 3.2-R and
> it uses the BIND idistribution for the DNS server.
> 
> I think in the old named I could just code
> 
> primary 0.0.127.in-addr.arpa    db.127.0.0
> cache   .                               db.cache

Have a look at http://www.isc.org/view.cgi?/products/BIND/

You'll need something similar to:

	forwarders { 1.2.3.4; };
	forward-only;

In your 'options {}' section (where 1.2.3.4 is the IP of your upstream
nameserver).

-Kp


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