From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 26 03:23:50 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2257716A404 for ; Wed, 26 Apr 2006 03:23:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from darom@filmkern.com) Received: from mail.filmkern.com (mail.filmkern.com [206.169.45.174]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA73943D45 for ; Wed, 26 Apr 2006 03:23:49 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from darom@filmkern.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.filmkern.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B45FF2BB21 for ; Tue, 25 Apr 2006 20:23:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.filmkern.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 25855-05 for ; Tue, 25 Apr 2006 20:23:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.filmkern.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.filmkern.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F3C029300 for ; Tue, 25 Apr 2006 20:23:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from 63.193.188.95 (SquirrelMail authenticated user darom@filmkern.com) by mail.filmkern.com with HTTP; Tue, 25 Apr 2006 20:23:50 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <53406.63.193.188.95.1146021830.squirrel@mail.filmkern.com> Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2006 20:23:50 -0700 (PDT) From: "Denis R." To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at filmkern.com Subject: re: caching nameserver X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 03:23:50 -0000 Check the DJBDNS author's site: http://cr.yp.to/djbdns.html The instructions are simple. If there is a lot of name resolutions happening on the web server itself, install dnscache on the localhost. My advice to you is to avoid BIND. It is too complicated for your needs. Regards! 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 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 servers (my ISPs). > >However I am having trouble finding a good tutorial to follow. > >I've looked at >http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-dns.html >but its mainly going on about being a nameserver which is not what I am >after, wanting to keep it more simple than that. > >[root@brian:/usr/local/etc] $ named -v >BIND 9.3.1 > >Can anyone suggest me a good tutorial to follow, I've googled but mostly >they are for debain/redhat and some of the commands and files are different. > >Cheers >Richard