[CentOS] Caching nameserver

William Warren hescominsoon at emmanuelcomputerconsulting.com
Mon Aug 8 18:30:01 UTC 2005


yes i need a caching name server that if the address it is looking for 
is not in cache will goto my Astaro firewall(which has the dns server to 
query).

eli at streetlampsoftware.com wrote:
> William Warren wrote:
> 
>> I am having some issue with setting up a caching nameserver.
>> here's the link:
>> http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=150&forum=10&post_id=400#forumpost400 
>>
>>
>> the OS is now CentOS4
> 
> 
> If you only need caching, then try using something simpler, and more 
> secure, than bind. Try dnsmasq (it can run a dhcp-server too, but that 
> is easily disabled) or dns-cache (a djb software utility).
> 
> I prefer dnsmasq myself. Simple, but effective.
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