Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2005 12:44:42 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Kiffin Gish <kiffin@gish.demon.nl> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DNS caching locally ... Message-ID: <20051007174442.GC44754@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <1128705415.693.11.camel@localhost> References: <1128705415.693.11.camel@localhost>
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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. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com
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