Date: Tue, 01 Jun 2004 16:31:22 +0900 From: Luke Kearney <lukek@meibin.net> To: jaymo@cromagnon.cullmail.com Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: DNS usage question Message-ID: <20040601162946.6F80.LUKEK@meibin.net> In-Reply-To: <200406010231.20904.jaymo@cromagnon.cullmail.com> References: <200406010231.20904.jaymo@cromagnon.cullmail.com>
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On Tue, 1 Jun 2004 02:31:20 -0500 Jay Moore <jaymo@cromagnon.cullmail.com> spake thus: > I'm running sendmail on my 5.2.1 system, and have a number of DNSBLs set up in > my sendmail configuration. I am not currently running BIND (or any other > nameserver), and therefore have configured my system to use one of my ISP's > DNS servers. > > I've noticed that each attempted connection to my mail server now generates a > flurry of DNS requests from my mail server to my ISP's DNS server. > > I'd like to streamline this process, but I don't really want to take on DNS > administration. I've heard about caching DNS servers, and "tiny DNS", and I > wondered if they might suit my needs. > > Comments, or recommendations?? > > Thanks, > Jay Running bind as a caching only nameserver is pretty trivial and fairly fool proof. Lots of good docs on the web and should only take a few minutes to get configured. Have not had any experience with TinyDNS so can't comment on that one. HTH LukeK -- Luke Kearney <lukek@meibin.net>
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