On Tue, May 04, 2004 at 03:42:50PM -0400, S.D.A. wrote: > 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? dnsmasq does the job and is really easy to set up. -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F
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