Setup of DNS caching name server for home server

[Ed Greshko]

Steven W. Orr wrote:
> On 09/24/09 16:49, quoth Bruno Wolff III:
>   
>> On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 16:04:03 -0400,
>>   "Steven W. Orr" <steveo at syslang.net> wrote:
>>     
>>> What I want to do is to set up the DNS Caching Nameserver. The goal is:
>>> * for saturn to use OpenDNS.org
>>> * For client machines in my network to use saturn via the caching server
>>>       
>> Do you know that you can set up your own resolver/cache instead of a
>> forwarder/cache and then not have to deal with opendns?
>>     
>
> Ok. I'll byte. Where do I start reading? Somebody has to be my resolver.
> Either I pick it or it's assigned to me by my ISP. Either way,m it seemed like
> a good idea to cache what I collected and then to make my machines on the
> inside of my net take advantage of the cache. What am I missing? And I don't
> understand the difference between what you're saying as different between a
> resolver cache vs a forwarder cache.
>
>   
I tend to consult the official documents of bind.  This is included when
you install it and can be found at...

/usr/share/doc/bind-9.6.1/arm

file:///usr/share/doc/bind-9.6.1/arm/Bv9ARM.html would get you to the
manual....  And Chapter 3 has a sample config file for a caching nameserver.

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