Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2005 14:37:00 -0400 From: Bob Middaugh <bob.middaugh@comcast.net> To: "'Kiffin Gish'" <kiffin@gish.demon.nl>, "'Dan Nelson'" <dnelson@allantgroup.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: DNS caching locally ... Message-ID: <0IO0001PS6FGDS@revere.dol.state.nj.us> In-Reply-To: <1128709895.693.25.camel@localhost>
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> -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Kiffin Gish > Sent: Friday, October 07, 2005 2:32 PM > To: Dan Nelson > Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: DNS caching locally ... > > 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 Well, you do need a DNS server to do the caching, no? Are you referring to the client resolver cache? http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-dns. html Bob > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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