There is no effort involved. Setting up a caching only nameserver involves editing one line in named.conf (the IP of the real dns). Also edit rc.config so it only listens to the internal interface. I don't know of any bugs in the current version, but it's better to be safe than sorry. The nscd will do pretty much the same thing, but only for the machine it's running on. You'd have to run one on each of the client machines. Regards Anders On Sunday 10 June 2001 01:56, marceld@easynet.be wrote:
Hello,
Is it worth the effort to install a 'caching only' bind server on my pc. I have a small home network (2 windows and 1 Linux pc connected connected to the internet via IP-masquerading.
Both the masquerading machine, and the Linux PC run Suse 7.1
I read the nscd daemon seems to do exactly the same thing (DNS name-caching that is), but found no way to verify the contents of this cache. Does anybody know if that is possible?
Any help for this would be greatly appreciated.
MD