Bind as a chaching nameserver

[Martin Hepworth]

Richard

just set the forwarders to another nameserver in the named.conf and that's
it..

this will speed up SA massively.

--
martin

On 4/25/06, Richard Collyer <richard at firebadger.net> wrote:
>
> 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
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