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Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 11:34:49 -0600
To: Martin Karlsson <martin.karlsson@visit.se>
From: Oscar Ricardo Silva <oscars@mail.utexas.edu>
Subject: Re: "private" DNS by-passing my ISPs? (Was: Re: /etc/hosts...)
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At 02:31 PM 12/17/2001 +0100, Martin Karlsson, you wrote:
>On Mon Dec 17, 2001 at 01:05:01PM +0000, Jan Grant wrote:
>
> > That depends. Good, innit? In this case, it depends on whether your ISP
> > is filtering/intercepting DNS traffic. If they've got problems keeping
> > their own DNS running, then that may be unlikely.
>
>"That depends" is a phrase which fills my heart with sunshine.. ;-)
>
> > You just need to set up a caching nameserver.
>
>OK. I got an off-list reply suggesting I'd add some often visited/used
>servers to /etc/hosts, and I think I'll do that while looking into
>setting up a cahing nameserver.
>
>Any particular pitfalls I should avoid when setting one up? A link to a
>good tutorial? Everything is welcome...
>
>Many thanks for your fast reply!

I would recommend using djbdns, Dan Bernstein's DNS server / caching 
nameserver.  It's fairly easy to setup and you can tune it in many 
different ways.  You'll need to install 
/usr/ports/net/djbdns  /usr/ports/sysutils/daemontools.  You can get 
setup/config information at:

<http://cr.yp.to/djbdns.html>
<http://www.djbdns.org>
<http://www.lifewithdjbdns.org>



Oscar


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