Re: sendmail - dns lookup problem
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 08:11:13AM -0700, Todd A. Jacobs wrote:
> On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 01:16:13PM +0200, Viktor Matys wrote:
> Best-practice for a mail server is to run a caching name server to
> minimize DNS timeouts. If you're not already doing so, you might want to
> consider that. You might also want to look into setting the "rotate"
> flag in your /etc/resolv.conf or /etc/resolvconf/resolv.conf.d/base to
> spread the load around to more than one upstream resolver.
I find that the easiest caching dns server to use on debian is dnsmasq.
Its basically install and forget for the dns stuff (it can act as a dhcp
server too), other than having other boxes point to this box for dns
lookup.
Doug.
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