Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2006 18:35:15 -0500 From: Derek Ragona <derek@computinginnovations.com> To: Richard Collyer <richard@firebadger.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Bind as a chaching nameserver Message-ID: <6.0.0.22.2.20060425183418.028e8bf0@mail.computinginnovations.com> In-Reply-To: <444EA79C.1040606@firebadger.net> References: <444EA79C.1040606@firebadger.net>
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For a caching nameserver simply follow the instructions in
named.conf. Enable named in rc.conf, and start the daemon.
-Derek
At 05:50 PM 4/25/2006, Richard Collyer wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I've recently been getting a lot of trouble with SpamAssassin performing a
>lot of rDNS lookups which is causing network issues (timeouts etc to DNS
>servers).
>
>I am trying to install BIND (or djbdns) as a simple caching nameserver.
>Just to take some of the load off the networks DNS servers (my ISPs).
>
>However I am having trouble finding a good tutorial to follow.
>
>I've looked at
>http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-dns.html
>but its mainly going on about being a nameserver which is not what I am
>after, wanting to keep it more simple than that.
>
>[root@brian:/usr/local/etc] $ named -v
>BIND 9.3.1
>
>Can anyone suggest me a good tutorial to follow, I've googled but mostly
>they are for debain/redhat and some of the commands and files are different.
>
>Cheers
>Richard
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