Subject: Re: Setting up a caching DNS server - input?
From: Arthur Corliss (arthur@corlissfamily.org)
Date: Fri Apr 04 2003 - 18:26:15 AKST
On Fri, 4 Apr 2003, Tom wrote:
>
> I'm looking at setting up a DNS server at work that would be a cache of
> another, master server. As I've never actually dealt with DNS before, I'm
> curious as to what people would recommend. It'll be the single local DNS
> server, with probably a maximum of several hundred users accessing it
> total. No local config at all, just a mirror of another server.
Sounds like you mean a *slave* server, rather than a *caching* server. The
question that needs answering is this just going to resolve names from a local
zone, or will it be caching Internet addresses as well? If it's the former,
then you want to set it up as a slave. If it includes the latter, then you'll
set up a caching server as well.
Either way, bind on any free UNIX is a perfect match. . .
--Arthur Corliss
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