Caching nameserver for home network

Robert Moskowitz rgm at htt-consult.com
Sun Jun 1 12:37:53 UTC 2014


On 06/01/2014 08:00 AM, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> I'm trying to set up a caching name server on a server on my home
> network.  All the instructions I've been able to find online refer to
> the caching-nameserver RPM, but that doesn't seem to be available in
> Fedora 20.  So my questions are:
>        * What happened to caching-nameserver?
>        * What (if anything) has replaced it?
>        * Are there any good, easy *current* instructions for doing this?
>          It seems like it should be a fairly cookbook task, so I
>          shouldn't have to learn all about bind to accomplish it.

As I recall, the caching-nameserver rpm was just the basic zone files 
for a caching nameserver.  So you install bind and set it up following 
any tutorial you choose for this purpose.

Or you can go with dns-masq which as I recall defaults this way.




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