From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 12 1:43:33 2003 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 6BE5C37B401 for ; Wed, 12 Feb 2003 01:43:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from dns.tegtmeyer.com (sg820805.de [217.160.170.133]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C939C43F85 for ; Wed, 12 Feb 2003 01:43:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from fte-sub-freebsd-questions@fte.to) Received: (qmail 4307 invoked from network); 12 Feb 2003 09:43:48 -0000 Received: from pd9e09712.dip.t-dialin.net (217.224.151.18) by 0 with QMTP; 12 Feb 2003 09:43:48 -0000 Received: (qmail 1321 invoked by uid 500); 12 Feb 2003 09:43:41 -0000 Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Getting dnscache working, howto? References: <200302121029.14713.freebsd.nospam@mekanix.dk> X-Face: dU\mXwf?KS(Sx?0y(1{8c=3W~Z,S+bzMe26W8YMmm7]9>tU:erm1G3NT,L"kwEQUZA]SPG& (s=v$)Gr@uS4HOlG2]k5 From: Frank Tegtmeyer Date: 12 Feb 2003 10:43:41 +0100 In-Reply-To: <200302121029.14713.freebsd.nospam@mekanix.dk> Message-ID: Lines: 27 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.4 (Artificial Intelligence) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Bjarne Wichmann Petersen writes: > 1) /etc/resolv.conf should say "nameserver 127.0.0.1" and nothing else? Yes. > 2) Should my ISP's DNS' be added as forwarders in named.conf. No. > If not, where should they be put then? Nowhere. They are simply not needed, except you provider *requires* you to use his nameservers and enforces this policy with firewall rules. > 3) Since I'm only aiming for a dns-cache I'm right in assuming I should keep > my hands away from all the zone-stuff? Much better: follow the instructions in http://cr.yp.to/djbdns/install.html and http://cr.yp.to/djbdns/run-cache.html and then forget any dns- and dns related security problems. Regards, Frank To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message