From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 30 09:00:11 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2CE2916A4CE for ; Tue, 30 Nov 2004 09:00:11 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.solid-state-logic.com (mail.solid-state-logic.com [193.117.244.250]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65E7643D41 for ; Tue, 30 Nov 2004 09:00:10 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from martinh@solid-state-logic.com) Received: from sol.solid-state-logic.com ([10.1.1.101] helo=solid-state-logic.com) by soloman.solid-state-logic.com with smtp (Exim 4.43 (FreeBSD)) id 1CZ3rg-000F8n-5c; Tue, 30 Nov 2004 09:00:04 +0000 Received: from [10.1.4.197] (martinh.solid-state-logic.com) by solid-state-logic.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA22067; Tue, 30 Nov 04 09:00:03 GMT Message-Id: <41AC3693.1050400@solid-state-logic.com> Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 09:00:03 +0000 From: Martin Hepworth User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Jonathon McKitrick References: <20041123233501.GA82229@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <5557305861.20041124004849@hexren.net> <20041124000014.GA83249@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <8763344284.20041124022927@hexren.net> <20041124141737.GA11648@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <41A49F58.4020000@circlesquared.com> <20041124154628.GE11648@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <41A4BFC8.8070702@circlesquared.com> <20041129204452.GI73697@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> In-Reply-To: <20041129204452.GI73697@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Solid-State-Logic-MailScanner-Information: Please contact Solid State Logic Ltd for more information X-Solid-State-Logic-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-From: martinh@solid-state-logic.com cc: Peter Risdon cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Caching DNS for dialup X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 09:00:11 -0000 Jonathon presumably all the nameserver is doing is forwarding requests to your ISP, as set in the named.boot file? also I guess you're running bind in which case it will cache automatically. probably best to just have it running on the gateway then it will cache requests from all clients. have the clients point to the gw as the nameserver in /etc/resolv.conf. -- Martin Hepworth Snr Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300 Jonathon McKitrick wrote: > On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 05:07:20PM +0000, Peter Risdon wrote: > : A caching DNS server would help conserve bandwidth on a dialup > : connection - I generally run one myself with any connection with limited > : bandwidth. > > After RTFM, I believe I have it up and running. ;-) > > Named is running, but how can I be sure the caching is working? > > Also, does it make sense to do this on each box, or just the gateway? > > jm > -- > My other computer is your Windows box. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" ********************************************************************** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the system manager. This footnote confirms that this email message has been swept for the presence of computer viruses and is believed to be clean. **********************************************************************