From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 26 06:01:12 2006 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 5FBAA16A403 for ; Wed, 26 Apr 2006 06:01:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bsd@bathnetworks.com) Received: from lmail.bathnetworks.co.uk (mail.bathnetworks.com [84.92.24.252]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3FB9343D46 for ; Wed, 26 Apr 2006 06:00:58 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bsd@bathnetworks.com) Received: (qmail 6311 invoked by uid 510); 26 Apr 2006 07:08:06 +0100 Received: from 127.0.0.1 by lmail.bathnetworks.co.uk (envelope-from , uid 508) with qmail-scanner-1.24-st-qms (clamdscan: 0.88/1261. spamassassin: 3.0.2. perlscan: 1.24-st-qms. Clear:RC:0(127.0.0.1):SA:0(-4.3/5.0):. Processed in 2.288836 secs); 26 Apr 2006 06:08:06 -0000 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.3 required=5.0 X-Antivirus-MYDOMAIN-Mail-From: bsd@bathnetworks.com via lmail.bathnetworks.co.uk X-Antivirus-MYDOMAIN: 1.24-st-qms (Clear:RC:0(127.0.0.1):SA:0(-4.3/5.0):. Processed in 2.288836 secs Process 6301) Received: from localhost (HELO 192.168.0.50) (bsd@bathnetworks.com@127.0.0.1) by lmail.bathnetworks.co.uk with SMTP; 26 Apr 2006 07:08:03 +0100 Received: from 192.168.0.107 (SquirrelMail authenticated user bsd@bathnetworks.com) by 192.168.0.50 with HTTP; Wed, 26 Apr 2006 07:08:03 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <1330.192.168.0.107.1146031683.squirrel@192.168.0.50> In-Reply-To: <444EA79C.1040606@firebadger.net> References: <444EA79C.1040606@firebadger.net> Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 07:08:03 +0100 (BST) From: bsd@bathnetworks.com To: "Richard Collyer" User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Bind as a chaching nameserver 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: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 06:01:12 -0000 > 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 Richard, What you need is a caching DNS. See para 25.6.7. If you don't use forwarders this will bypass your ISPs DNS. There are other solutions too, try Google for them. Rob