Re: Debian bind DNS
* Lionel Elie Mamane:
> On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 06:09:54AM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
>> * martin:
>
>>> I have built a local DNS server bind (Debian Sarge).The DNS should
>>> accelerate DNS look ups by LAN clients. But Now, in contrary the
>>> local dns is slower than a custom DNS by my webhoster :-(
>
>> You should use BIND 9, disable lookups over IPv6 (OPTIONS="-u bind
>> -4" in /etc/defaults/bind9), and you need to wait a bit until the
>> local cache has been filled.
>
> You could also consider having your resolver forward to your ISP's
> resolver.
If the ISP runs slightly broken name server software, this won't work
reliably. Unfortunately, such name servers are still quite common.
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