From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Nov 2 10: 5:47 2002 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 6070B37B404 for ; Sat, 2 Nov 2002 10:05:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from voo.doo.net (voo.doo.net [81.17.45.210]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D93F343E3B for ; Sat, 2 Nov 2002 10:05:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marc@schneiders.org) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by voo.doo.net (8.12.5/8.12.3) with ESMTP id gA2I5V0M027467 for ; Sat, 2 Nov 2002 19:05:32 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from marc@schneiders.org) Date: Sat, 2 Nov 2002 19:05:31 +0100 (CET) From: Marc Schneiders X-X-Sender: Cc: Subject: Re: Resolving hostnames takes "forever" In-Reply-To: <20021102181741.273c6f15.freebsd@secspace.de> Message-ID: <20021102185842.J27440-100000@voo.doo.net> X-Preferred-email-to: marc@schneiders.org X-Other-email-to: marc@venster.nl X-Organization: Venster (Zeist - NL) X-URL: http://www.bijt.net/ X-SOA: A.ROOT-SERVERS.ORSC. X-OS: FreeBSD: The Power to Serve MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 2 Nov 2002, at 18:17 [=GMT+0100], Volker Kindermann wrote: > It's very easy to do this with djbdns. Just > install the daemontools, then djbdns and configure your machine as a > local cache (if it's standalone) or an external cache (if you serve a > network). Instructions are on the webpage http://cr.yp.to > > Beleave me, it's as simple as installing something from ports and kills > all your dns-Problems. You don't need to bother with bind and > named.conf, etc. Believe me, Bind is much easier to get running than djbdns. You don't have to install it at all (it comes with the main system), and it is not some cluster of interdepending programs. How to start Bind at boot, and what to config someone else already described today here. Djbdns may be safer, better, whatever than Bind, it is _not_ easier to install and get running. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message