Author: James Ashburner Date: To: lug, Hampshire LUG Discussion List Subject: Re: [Hampshire] [OT] DNS cache on Netgear DG834G
Vic wrote: >>> Setting up your own DNS server is *easy*.
>> Do you have a recommended howto Vic? Or is this more a case of JFGI? :)
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> It's more "JFDI" than "JFGI" :-)
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> Most modern distros seem to ship a nameserver configured as caching-only,
> so all you need do is to install it ("yum install bind" or somesuch),
> start it (chkconfig, service, you know the score), and point your
> /etc/resolv.conf at localhost...
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> If you want to be a little more adventurous & start running a nameserver
> for your own domain, I wrote a walkthrough at http://beer.org.uk/bsacdns/ > . It's targetted at one of my customers who was having a hard time, and
> it;s now *very* dated (I was still running RH8.0 when I wrote it), but
> some people seem to have found it useful. But note that you don't have to
> do any of that just to do your own resolution...
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> Vic.
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