Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 08:05:15 +0100 From: "Martin Hepworth" <maxsec@gmail.com> To: "Richard Collyer" <richard@firebadger.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Bind as a chaching nameserver Message-ID: <72cf361e0604260005kfdf580bw3df0caa43a6a19ae@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <444EA79C.1040606@firebadger.net> References: <444EA79C.1040606@firebadger.net>
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Richard just set the forwarders to another nameserver in the named.conf and that's it.. this will speed up SA massively. -- martin On 4/25/06, Richard Collyer <richard@firebadger.net> 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.htm= l > 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 > _______________________________________________ > 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" >
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