DNS problems this morning -
lee
lee at yun.yagibdah.de
Sun Nov 11 17:35:21 UTC 2012
"Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA" <bobgoodwin at wildblue.net> writes:
> My ISP appears to have a dns problem today. it has been taking as
> much as one minute to deal wit an address! I appears that we are
> locked into using the Viasat provided dns, the usual alternatives
> like opndns do not work.
>
> I installed caching-nameserver which seems to restore things to normal.
>
> yum install caching-nameserver
>
> I have two questions:
>
> 1: It seems to me that it must have to collect and accumulate
> it's own list of addresses which would mean it is normal for it
> to work faster the second time an address is requested of it?
>
> 2: Is there a practical way to share my Linux dns with other
> [Apple Mac, etc.] computers on our LAN?
You could as well install bind instead and allow clients to use it.
Fedora has system-config-bind-gui to make it easy to set up. When you
are at it, you could add squid and let the clients use it as well ...
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