Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2005 13:56:10 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Kiffin Gish <kiffin@gish.demon.nl> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DNS caching locally ... Message-ID: <20051007185609.GD44754@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <1128709895.693.25.camel@localhost> References: <1128705415.693.11.camel@localhost> <20051007174442.GC44754@dan.emsphone.com> <1128709895.693.25.camel@localhost>
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In the last episode (Oct 07), Kiffin Gish said: > 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. > > Yes but isn't this a bit of an overkill when all I want is local dns > caching and nothing else? Isn't what overkill? Edit two files and start named; a caching named isn't going to take up more than a couple MB of memory. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com
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