on 7-10-2008 2:04 PM Lanny Marcus spake the following:
On 7/10/08, Lanny Marcus lmmailinglists-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org wrote:
<snip> > I think I saw a reference, in a thread yesterday, about not having a > package with "caching" in it's name, if one also has BIND installed. I > am going to try to locate that thread and find out about that package. > Possibly it can do what I need to do.
OK. I found it. Tru wrote this, in a thread yesterday:
If you have the caching-nameserver package, it's the expected behaviour: /etc/named.conf is "owned" and labelled as "config file" for
caching-nameserver.
The regular bind/bind-chroot don't provide named.conf. You should not install the caching-nameserver package if you are indeed providing DNS services with bind...
I'm wondering if caching-nameserver will do the Caching DNS for me, if I use CentOS 3.x or 4.x. Also need the box to do Routing and Masquerading. Would that be done by IPTables? Or, if I shoud use dnscache, which is apparently much more secure than BIND, or something else, that is easier for a newbie to get configured properly. TIA! Lanny
Bind as a caching nameserver is dead easy to install. Just run "yum install caching-nameserver" and it will pull everything in. Then "chkconfig named on & service named start"