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Luke Kearney wrote:

>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. 
>  
>

If you want to use djbdns, you'll want to run dnscache rather than 
tinydns - which is designed for publishing DNS information.

A good starting point for this is:

http://cr.yp.to/djbdns/run-cache.html

PWR.