From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 17 9:51:59 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from foo31-249.visit.se (foo31-249.visit.se [62.119.31.249]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2BE0B37B643 for ; Mon, 17 Dec 2001 09:51:03 -0800 (PST) Received: by foo31-249.visit.se (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 0C04CA891C; Mon, 17 Dec 2001 18:50:40 +0100 (CET) Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 18:50:40 +0100 From: Martin Karlsson To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: devin-freebsdquestions@rintrah.org, oscars@mail.utexas.edu Subject: Re: "private" DNS by-passing my ISPs? (Was: Re: /etc/hosts...) Message-ID: <20011217185040.B1344@foo31-249.visit.se> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, devin-freebsdquestions@rintrah.org, oscars@mail.utexas.edu References: <20011217134638.A4572@foo31-249.visit.se> <20011217143137.A13740@foo31-249.visit.se> <5.1.0.14.2.20011217113109.02a11410@mail.utexas.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20011217113109.02a11410@mail.utexas.edu>; from oscars@mail.utexas.edu on Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 11:34:49AM -0600 X-Editor: Vim http://www.vim.org/ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon Dec 17, 2001 at 11:34:49AM -0600, Oscar Ricardo Silva wrote: > 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: > > > > Thanks a lot, guys, you've been very helpful; I'll be looking into djbdns promptly. Be well! -- Martin Karlsson To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message