Re: which dns server to use ?

["mslucas" <mslucas@taos-it.nl>]

> On Tue, 2003-04-08 at 23:52, Nate Campi wrote:
>
> > I use tinydns for a company that serves over one billion web hits per
> > day (not visitors, hits, and no I'm not exaggerating). The authoritative
> > nameservers serve between 100 and 300 queries/sec on each of five
> > nameservers, for between 50 and 90 million queries answered per day.
>
> How would you use tinydns+dnscache on a machine that has to act as both
> authoritative and caching server? It has to serve a LAN with dns proxy
> _and_ serve the private zones that are used on the LAN. The private
> zones are like ".foo", so dnscache won't know anything about them from
> the root servers.

Setup dnscache on the private LAN ipaddress
Setup tinydns on 127.0.0.1

echo 127.0.0.1 > /etc/dnscache/root/servers/mydomain.foo

and dnscache will ask the local authoritative server about mydomain.foo

Maurice Lucas
TAOS-IT