DNS problems this morning -

[Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA]

    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?

    Bob

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