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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
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