On Sat, 06 Apr 2002 02:39:27 CDT, "Michael D. Crawford" writes: <...> >Presently I am using neither a proxy nor a DNS cache. Would it help things to >use them? I can see how having a DNS cache would help when my ISP's >nameserver goes down, which it seems to quite a bit. > >If I should use a proxy, which one should I get? squid http://www.squid.org/ for web-caching, maybe with a filtering proxy like junkbuster http://www.junkbuster.com/ in front of it. bind does DNS-caching nicely enough, if your upstream DNS ir b0rken often enough you may want to let it resolve fully on its own (eg no b"forwarder" in the config, just the root nameservers). All of them are available as Debian packages. cheers, &rw -- / Ing. Robert Waldner | Security Engineer | CoreTec IT-Security \ \ <rw@coretec.at> | T +43 1 503 72 73 | F +43 1 503 72 73 x99 /
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