[CentOS] bind and caching-nameserver

Marc Powell

marc at ena.com
Tue May 10 17:15:31 UTC 2005



> -----Original Message-----
> From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On
> Behalf Of Mark Quitoriano
> Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2005 2:02 AM
> To: CentOS mailing list
> Subject: Re: [CentOS] bind and caching-nameserver
> 
> well that's my problem with bind. once i cut myself to the internet i
> can't resolve all domain. i did this as a test i ping google.com first
> while i am connected to the net and then i disconnect my cable and try
> to ping it again but it can't resolve google.com anymore, my
> resolve.conf is "nameserver 127.0.0.1", and i don't know how to
> configure bind to cache domain's ip addressess at least 1 day or so.

There are a number of programs designed for this type of situation.
pdnsd (http://www.phys.uu.nl/~rombouts/pdnsd.html) looks like it's just
what you're looking for. If not, try searching for 'dns proxy', 'dns
cache' or 'dns proxy cache' on freshmeat or google.

--
Marc



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