From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 28 12:56:44 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA29086 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 28 May 1997 12:56:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from andrsn.stanford.edu (root@andrsn.Stanford.EDU [36.33.0.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA29077 for ; Wed, 28 May 1997 12:56:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (andrsn@localhost.Stanford.EDU [127.0.0.1]) by andrsn.stanford.edu (8.8.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id MAA06125 for ; Wed, 28 May 1997 12:56:41 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 28 May 1997 12:56:41 -0700 (PDT) From: Annelise Anderson To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: DNS cache? Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I agreed in a moment of weakness to take over a small mailing list (about 200 names), using majordomo. Outgoing mail to the list is rather slow (it takes maybe 20-30 minutes) and I've heard about running a "DNS cache" to speed things up. I suppose this works by recording the ip addresses associated with the domains when they are acquired from (in this case) Stanford's DNS server, so they can be looked up locally. Is there a software package for this? This machine has FreeBSD 2.2.1 installed on it; it's just a Pentium 90 with 32 megs ram, but I think it could do better than it's been doing....I found bulk_mailer and installed it but haven't yet figured out how to set it up. Thanks-- Annelise