On Fri, 2005-10-07 at 13:56 -0500, Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Oct 07), Kiffin Gish said: > > On Fri, 2005-10-07 at 12:44 -0500, Dan Nelson wrote: > > > In the last episode (Oct 07), Kiffin Gish said: > > > > I understand that it is possible to speed up surfing, especially > > > > using a wireless Internet connection, by using DNS caching > > > > locally. This has to do with enabling the named daemon or > > > > something, but I understand that there are some restrictions. > > > > > > > > Is there a simple recipe explaining how to do this? > > > > > > Basically, edit /etc/rc.conf and add named_enable="YES", run > > > "/etc/rc.d/named start" (you only have to do this if you don't want to > > > reboot), then edit /etc/resolv.conf and add a "nameserver 127.0.0.1" > > > line in front of any nameserver lines you may already have. > > > > Yes but isn't this a bit of an overkill when all I want is local dns > > caching and nothing else? > > Isn't what overkill? Edit two files and start named; a caching named > isn't going to take up more than a couple MB of memory. >
All right then I'll give it a go, thanks. -- Kiffin Gish Gouda, The Netherlands _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"