Basic DNS Cache Server
Bill Larson
wllarso at swcp.com
Wed Aug 2 23:56:43 UTC 2006
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
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