Bind as a chaching nameserver

[bsd at bathnetworks.com]

> Hello,
>
> I've recently been getting a lot of trouble with SpamAssassin performing
> a lot of rDNS lookups which is causing network issues (timeouts etc to
> DNS servers).
>
> I am trying to install BIND (or djbdns) as a simple caching nameserver.
> Just to take some of the load off the networks DNS servers (my ISPs).
>
> However I am having trouble finding a good tutorial to follow.
>
> I've looked at
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-dns.html
> but its mainly going on about being a nameserver which is not what I am
> after, wanting to keep it more simple than that.
>
> [root at brian:/usr/local/etc] $ named -v
> BIND 9.3.1
>
> Can anyone suggest me a good tutorial to follow, I've googled but mostly
> they are for debain/redhat and some of the commands and files are
> different.
>
> Cheers
> Richard

Richard,

What you need is a caching DNS. See para 25.6.7. If you don't use
forwarders this will bypass your ISPs DNS.

There are other solutions too, try Google for them.

Rob