Caching nameServer

[Marc.Thach at radianz.com]

Tony,
is the nameserver also a gateway?  If so, then I think "listen-on" will
kill it.
BTW using forwarding to an ISP DNS will be very slow if the first server is
slow or down.  The timeouts used with forwarders are usually longer (30
secs divided by the number of forwarders). than following referrals (4 secs
to start), and it tries them in strict order.
Marc TXK



                                                                                                                   
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I would like to setup a caching nameserver for my local network and have
clients point to this caching DNS instead of my ISP for faster name
resolution.

options {

directory "/var/named";

listen-on {192.168.0.20;};

pid-file "named.pid";

};

zone "." {

type hint;

file "named.ca";

};

zone "localhost" {

type master;

file "localhost.db";

};

zone "0.0.127.in-addr.arpa" {

type master;

file "localhost_rev.db";

};



When I have a client point to this DNS address. Resolution fails. I dont
see
anything in the logs.



Any ideas?









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