On Sat, 17 Sep 2005 21:08:20 -0700 Steve B <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm a little confused on the topic of running Bind on OBSD. I've read > the Secure Architectures book, some material at > http://www.aei.ca/~pmatulis/pub/obsd_pf.html and a few other places. > My goal is to provide DNS to my local LANs and probably act as a > caching/forwarding DNS. What confuses me is 1) where to put my > db.wired and db.1.168.192 files, 2) what to add to named.conf to put > these files to use, and 3) how to configure named.conf for > caching/forwarding. > > Some articles I've read via Google say the default named.conf is > configured as a caching nameserver and to simply start the named > daemon, while others say the forwarders first and forwarders options > must be entered. Could someone with a little more experience on this > topic please point me in the right direction? Try dnscache part of djbdns from http://cr.yp.to, its very good and efficient, also rather secure compared to BIND (Buggy Internet Name Daemon). -- http://www.usenix.org.uk - http://irc.is-cool.net
