From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 26 07:05:16 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 A9BAD16A405 for ; Wed, 26 Apr 2006 07:05:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from maxsec@gmail.com) Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.228]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BBA843D4C for ; Wed, 26 Apr 2006 07:05:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from maxsec@gmail.com) Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id i12so1377971wra for ; Wed, 26 Apr 2006 00:05:15 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=cIN9eZwS0CzRg1zWAl0OfV29OAANkFf4XSfG+45FrzyBOVppWEhqmBCkSifafeMFE3yBdlw8PK+qruOrjkpc/yEbYCUb/5/cdAvCu+4EOHjw5Td2VTvTWpyxcFyHsed8g1EpnerfN5gxozq9KhKEDI35+ZHDGQrsdz7hpDWvjU8= Received: by 10.54.79.5 with SMTP id c5mr580004wrb; Wed, 26 Apr 2006 00:05:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.54.105.15 with HTTP; Wed, 26 Apr 2006 00:05:14 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <72cf361e0604260005kfdf580bw3df0caa43a6a19ae@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 08:05:15 +0100 From: "Martin Hepworth" To: "Richard Collyer" In-Reply-To: <444EA79C.1040606@firebadger.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <444EA79C.1040606@firebadger.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 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 07:05:16 -0000 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 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" >