Re: nameserver queries

[Randy Orrison <randy@orrison.com>]

S.D.A. wrote:
> On Tue, May 04, 2004 at 10:40:25AM -0700 or thereabouts, Paul Johnson wrote:
> > 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?

I used to use pdnsd but switched to dnsmasq (since it can talk to a dhcp 
server and serve the addresses of local machines).  Both should do what 
you need, and are much simpler than bind.

Randy