From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 7 18:31:29 2005 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 D744516A41F for ; Fri, 7 Oct 2005 18:31:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kiffin@gish.demon.nl) Received: from post-24.mail.nl.demon.net (post-24.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.194]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7DE2743D46 for ; Fri, 7 Oct 2005 18:31:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kiffin@gish.demon.nl) Received: from gish.demon.nl ([83.160.27.223]:24796 helo=[192.168.1.34]) by post-24.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 4.51) id 1ENx0B-000BLl-V2; Fri, 07 Oct 2005 18:31:28 +0000 From: Kiffin Gish To: Dan Nelson In-Reply-To: <20051007174442.GC44754@dan.emsphone.com> References: <1128705415.693.11.camel@localhost> <20051007174442.GC44754@dan.emsphone.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2005 20:31:35 +0200 Message-Id: <1128709895.693.25.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DNS caching locally ... 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: Fri, 07 Oct 2005 18:31:30 -0000 On Fri, 2005-10-07 at 12:44 -0500, Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Oct 07), Kiffin Gish said: > > I understand that it is possible to speed up surfing, especially > > using a wireless Internet connection, by using DNS caching locally. > > This has to do with enabling the named daemon or something, but I > > understand that there are some restrictions. > > > > Is there a simple recipe explaining how to do this? > > Basically, edit /etc/rc.conf and add named_enable="YES", run > "/etc/rc.d/named start" (you only have to do this if you don't want to > reboot), then edit /etc/resolv.conf and add a "nameserver 127.0.0.1" > line in front of any nameserver lines you may already have. > > If you are behind a firewall that blocks DNS requests except to > specific servers, you may have to edit /etc/namedb/named.conf and > uncomment/edit the forwarders block to tell named to forward requests > to those servers. > Yes but isn't this a bit of an overkill when all I want is local dns caching and nothing else? -- Kiffin Gish Gouda, The Netherlands