Basic DNS Cache Server

[Bill Larson]

On Aug 2, 2006, at 4:18 PM, Mark Andrews wrote:

>
>> On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 03:14:21PM -0400,
>>  abdul khan <akhan at fleetwoodmetal.com> wrote
>>  a message of 23 lines which said:
>>
>>> The easiest thing for beginners is Tynidns.
>>
>> At least spell it correctly:
>> tinydns. http://cr.yp.to/djbdns/tinydns.html
>>
>>> you have to have a thorough knwoledge to play with BIND.
>>
>> There is nothing to do to configure BIND as a caching name server, it
>> is its default.
>>
>> When I read the incredible amount of disinformation on djbdns pages
>> (for instance on http://cr.yp.to/djbdns/dot-fr.html), I do not  
>> want to
>> try tinydns.
>
> 	"named -c /dev/null"  will bring up a caching server that
> 	will use the built in root hints (BIND 9).
>
> 	There is another instance of named running on 127.0.0.1.
>
> 	Mark

Just did this to try it out.  It works!  This makes for the simplest  
BIND DNS server that I have ever seen.  It is even useful.

Bill Larson