Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 11:05:49 -0500 From: devin-freebsdquestions@rintrah.org To: Jan Grant <Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: "private" DNS by-passing my ISPs? (Was: Re: /etc/hosts...) Message-ID: <20011217110549.A72363@tharmas.rintrah.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.31.0112171335110.10975-100000@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk>; from Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk on Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 01:41:04PM %2B0000 References: <20011217143137.A13740@foo31-249.visit.se> <Pine.GSO.4.31.0112171335110.10975-100000@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk>
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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. No need to bother setting up the other half of djbdns, which is a local name server called tinydns. --devin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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