Karanbir Singh wrote:
> On 07/08/2009 11:46 PM, John R Pierce wrote:
>
>> for your use, dnsmasq would do nicely. with the rpmforge repo
>> configured...
>>
>
> whats wrong with the dnsmasq already included in C5 ? ( I am guessing
> the target is c5 )
>
oh is it? I did a rpm -qi and saw your name and assumed it was from
rpmforge.
> Why not just use the caching-nameserver ?
>
isn't that a canned bind configuration? ah, yeah, thats what the
package info file says it is.
bind is a lot more complex than dnsmasq. dnsmasq uses /etc/resolv.conf
for forwarded lookups, while a caching bind server either uses
a statically configured forwarder, or a root cache zone, and running a
root cache zone on a intermittently connected system ('different ISPs')
isn't a good idea.
dnsmasq will also serve local clients with dns using entries in your
/etc/hosts file, which can be handy when you have a few static hosts on
a small masqueraded network.