On Tue, May 04, 2004 at 10:40:25AM -0700 or thereabouts, Paul Johnson wrote: > Harland Christofferson <debian-user@zerocrossings.com> writes: > > i have a subnet on a corporate internet that i use for code builds. > > my gateway serves as a dns and firewall for the subnet. my gateway > > contacts the corporate nameserver too frequently (a few to several > > times per second) and the corporate it people have complained to me > > about this. i'd like to decrease the rate of queries. how may i do > > this? i have googled but haven't found an answer. > > Install a caching DNS server. I'm sure there's some stand-alone > forward-only caching DNS servers out there, however the only method to > do this that I've tried is reconfiguring BIND to do it. Is there a 'howto' somewhere for this? I've often thought of doing this, but I'm definitely no bind guru. I did a quick Google search for local caching. I gather that using Bind for this is rather complicated for the user not experienced in Bind. Would you recommend using Dan Bernstein's DNS cache - part of his djbdns tools for this? -- Steve +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Tuesday May 04 2004 03:31:01 PM EDT +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Savage's Law of Expediency: You want it bad, you'll get it bad.
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