Date: Tue, 01 Jun 2004 09:20:45 +0100 From: Peter Risdon <peter@circlesquared.com> To: jaymo@cromagnon.cullmail.com Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: DNS usage question Message-ID: <40BC3C5D.2060500@circlesquared.com> In-Reply-To: <20040601162946.6F80.LUKEK@meibin.net> References: <200406010231.20904.jaymo@cromagnon.cullmail.com> <20040601162946.6F80.LUKEK@meibin.net>
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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.
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