Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2005 20:31:35 +0200 From: Kiffin Gish <kiffin@gish.demon.nl> To: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DNS caching locally ... Message-ID: <1128709895.693.25.camel@localhost> In-Reply-To: <20051007174442.GC44754@dan.emsphone.com> References: <1128705415.693.11.camel@localhost> <20051007174442.GC44754@dan.emsphone.com>
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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. > > If you are behind a firewall that blocks DNS requests except to > specific servers, you may have to edit /etc/namedb/named.conf and > uncomment/edit the forwarders block to tell named to forward requests > to those servers. > Yes but isn't this a bit of an overkill when all I want is local dns caching and nothing else? -- Kiffin Gish Gouda, The Netherlands
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