On 12/9/05, michael higgins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've found that it'll often takes longer to get DNS resolution than content > over my connection, so I thought a caching DNS server the way to go. With > that in mind, I installed BIND.
nscd does this, and is much simpler. It is already installed as part of glibc. Just do rc-update -a nscd default. > From what I understand (right or wrong, IDK), I should only have to look up > something once, then that info is available locally until I reboot. Or, like > that... It will cache until named is restarted, or the lookup expires. The lookup expiration time is determined by the authoritative name server for that domain. > So, how do I know if this is doing what I want? If anyone knows the right and > proper way to do this, I'd appreciate it. >From one terminal: tcpdump dst port 53 >From another terminal: ping -c 4 google.com ping -c 4 google.com If you see domain queries being sent when you do the second ping, then you are not caching. BTW, if you really want to use named for this, your /etc/resolv.conf should contain only "nameserver 127.0.0.1". If you are use nscd, then resolv.conf can be left as is. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
