Re: [hosers-talk] DNS caching

[Joel Uckelman <uckelman@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thus spake "Jon Stewart":
> 
> For the last week or so, my DNS has been very flaky, getting a lot of 
> timeouts. I blame SBC. Rather than try to troubleshoot it with them -- 
> anyone ever call SBC?? -- I thought, gee, it would be great if there were 
> a simple caching DNS proxy I could run on my server, something akin to 
> Squid, so I could have a relatively up-to-date DNS proxy on my end. I 
> don't seem to have any connection issues otherwise, since I often have 
> persistent connections open and they stay open just fine.
> 
> So, is there something like this that would be simple to set up? I don't 
> think I need the full on horror story that is BIND.
>

You have my sympathy w/r/t to SBC. I'd like to have back all those hours
I spent on the phone with them.

nscd (Name Server Caching Daemon) might be what you want. I could give you
a config file if you needed one.
 
-- 
J.
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