From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 7 19:01:16 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 AEBDB16A41F for ; Fri, 7 Oct 2005 19:01:16 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kiffin@gish.demon.nl) Received: from post-24.mail.nl.demon.net (post-24.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.194]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54A9043D48 for ; Fri, 7 Oct 2005 19:01:16 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kiffin@gish.demon.nl) Received: from gish.demon.nl ([83.160.27.223]:24981 helo=[192.168.1.34]) by post-24.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 4.51) id 1ENxT1-000J5S-LQ; Fri, 07 Oct 2005 19:01:15 +0000 From: Kiffin Gish To: Dan Nelson In-Reply-To: <20051007185609.GD44754@dan.emsphone.com> References: <1128705415.693.11.camel@localhost> <20051007174442.GC44754@dan.emsphone.com> <1128709895.693.25.camel@localhost> <20051007185609.GD44754@dan.emsphone.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2005 21:01:23 +0200 Message-Id: <1128711683.693.27.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DNS caching locally ... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2005 19:01:16 -0000 On Fri, 2005-10-07 at 13:56 -0500, Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Oct 07), Kiffin Gish said: > > On Fri, 2005-10-07 at 12:44 -0500, Dan Nelson wrote: > > > In the last episode (Oct 07), Kiffin Gish said: > > > > I understand that it is possible to speed up surfing, especially > > > > using a wireless Internet connection, by using DNS caching > > > > locally. This has to do with enabling the named daemon or > > > > something, but I understand that there are some restrictions. > > > > > > > > Is there a simple recipe explaining how to do this? > > > > > > Basically, edit /etc/rc.conf and add named_enable="YES", run > > > "/etc/rc.d/named start" (you only have to do this if you don't want to > > > reboot), then edit /etc/resolv.conf and add a "nameserver 127.0.0.1" > > > line in front of any nameserver lines you may already have. > > > > Yes but isn't this a bit of an overkill when all I want is local dns > > caching and nothing else? > > Isn't what overkill? Edit two files and start named; a caching named > isn't going to take up more than a couple MB of memory. > All right then I'll give it a go, thanks. -- Kiffin Gish Gouda, The Netherlands