On Thu, Jul 10, 2008, Lanny Marcus wrote: >On 7/10/08, Scott Silva <ssilva at sgvwater.com> wrote: ><snip> >> 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" > >Scott: Thanks! I just began a text file: "Caching DNS Server" and >copied the above into it. Questions: (a) Is caching-nameserver >completely standalone or do I need anything else with it? (Sound like >yum will install everything it needs) (b) How to configure it? (c) >Easier for me to get that configured properly than dnscache from >djbdns? (d) If I do a minimal CentOS 3.x or 4.x install, would I do >the Routing & Masquerading with IPTables or something else? If I can >get this to work, on a CentOS box, that would be great. Lots of >questions! Your time and help is much appreciated! Lanny If you configure BIND so it only listens on 127.0.0.1, it should be fairly secure. Bill -- INTERNET: bill at celestial.com Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way Voice: (206) 236-1676 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820 Fax: (206) 232-9186 Never blame a legislative body for not doing something. When they do nothing, that don't hurt anybody. When they do something is when they become dangerous. -- Will Rogers