Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 11:37:42 -0600 From: Oscar Ricardo Silva <oscars@mail.utexas.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: "private" DNS by-passing my ISPs? (Was: Re: /etc/hosts...) Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.2.20011217113556.00ab9038@mail.utexas.edu> In-Reply-To: <20011217110549.A72363@tharmas.rintrah.org> References: <Pine.GSO.4.31.0112171335110.10975-100000@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk> <20011217143137.A13740@foo31-249.visit.se> <Pine.GSO.4.31.0112171335110.10975-100000@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk>
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At 11:05 AM 12/17/2001 -0500, devin-freebsdquestions@rintrah.org, you wrote: >On Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 01:41:04PM +0000, Jan Grant wrote: > > On Mon, 17 Dec 2001, Martin Karlsson wrote: > > > > > Any particular pitfalls I should avoid when setting one up? A link to a > > > good tutorial? Everything is welcome... > > > > Ironically, > > http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/DNS-HOWTO-3.html > > looks reasonable. I'm also given to understand that djbdns works well in > > this regard; it's also odds-on to have fewer security concerns than > > ISC's bind :-/ > >[snip] > >djbdns has 2 parts: > >one is a caching name server called dnscache. All this >program does is query the root servers and cache responses. > >I've always found this perfect for my needs, and there's no need to >learn the complexities of bind configuration. And you can install it from >ports. Another great thing about dnscache is that for a particular domain, you can have all queries for that domain go to specific nameservers. So for example, you can have all queries in your ISPs domain go to their nameservers, but all others go to the root servers. Oscar To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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