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Subject: Slow DNS
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I have just set up a router and would like DNS caching on it. I have tried to 
set it up an it kind of works, just computer using it as their nameserver 
take ages on DNS queries, up to 4-5 seconds.

To set up the DNS caching I added the ip of another DNS server 
to /etc/resolv.conf and added namd_enable="YES" to /etc/rc.conf.
I also tweaked the following lines in /var/named/etc/namedb/named.conf: 
listen-on       { "any"; };
forwarders {
       192.168.0.1;
};
query-source address * port 53;

Any ideas on how to make it run better? The DNS server at 192.168.0.1 answers 
DNS queries in a few milliseconds.

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/Xian

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