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Date:      Fri, 07 Oct 2005 21:01:23 +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:  <1128711683.693.27.camel@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <20051007185609.GD44754@dan.emsphone.com>
References:  <1128705415.693.11.camel@localhost> <20051007174442.GC44754@dan.emsphone.com> <1128709895.693.25.camel@localhost> <20051007185609.GD44754@dan.emsphone.com>

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On Fri, 2005-10-07 at 13:56 -0500, Dan Nelson wrote:
> In the last episode (Oct 07), Kiffin Gish said:
> > 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.
> > 
> > Yes but isn't this a bit of an overkill when all I want is local dns
> > caching and nothing else?
> 
> Isn't what overkill?  Edit two files and start named; a caching named
> isn't going to take up more than a couple MB of memory.
> 

All right then I'll give it a go, thanks.

-- 
Kiffin Gish
Gouda, The Netherlands




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