[CentOS] Caching nameserver
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
Tue Aug 9 16:06:42 UTC 2005
On Mon, 2005-08-08 at 13:23, eli at streetlampsoftware.com wrote:
> >
> > the OS is now CentOS4
>
> If you only need caching, then try using something simpler, and more
> secure, than bind.
Note that Centos4 runs bind under a non-root uid and in a chroot
jail, so it should be as secure as you can get.
> 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.
You can't get much simpler than
yum install bind
and if needed, add the forwarders to named.conf
--
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
More information about the CentOS
mailing list