28 Aug
2007
28 Aug
'07
5:32 p.m.
On Sun, 2007-08-26 at 21:57 +0530, Rony wrote:
Hello All,
We were discussing DNS caching and the bind configuration. However, bind is a DNS server whereas we only want a DNS cache that updates itself automatically. Maybe I understood it wrong but on the net I found this link for DNS caching. It uses a package called dnsmasq. It works on my system. First time I do dig google.com it takes 42 ms. second time 2 sec.
http://ubuntu.wordpress.com/2006/08/02/local-dns-cache-for-faster-browsing/
Ronny is right. BIND is waay too heavy if you want just a caching DNS server. There are lots of smaller, less resource intensive servers for Linux.
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Regards,
Dinesh A. Joshi