On Fri, 26 Oct 2001 at 10:09, likot wrote:
> > which svscan loads up within 5 minutes.
> 5 seconds :)

Oops. Yes. 5 seconds or LESS. :)

> okay i think you made things alot harder than it should be ( if i
> understand you correctly) andy yes tinydns and dnscache will not
> listen on the same interface

I _am_ a newbie as far as djb is concerned (save for my use of qmail, but
that was quite awhile back). Still, I wouldn't say it was too hard. I had
negligible downtime. ;>

> tinydns should be configured to listen on a public/live or reachable
> ip address (if you are using a public content dns server)

That's indeed how it's configured. As a matter of fact, tinydns listens to
all interfaces (0.0.0.0).

> i think this could be handled by one dnscachex or an external dnscache

Oh?

1. If I make dnscache listen to 192.168.0.1, connections to 127.0.0.1
won't work.

2. If I make dnscache listen to 127.0.0.1, connections from the LAN won't
work.

3. If I make dnscache listen to 0.0.0.0 and restricting allowed
connections via root/ip/*, external lookups to tinydns won't work because
dnscache listens on both udp:53 and tcp:53.

> touch ips in that directory to give access to your dnscache

But the env/IP still dictates to which IP dnscache listens on. And if it
listens on 192.168.0.1 I can't do lookups to localhost. Although I could
simply fix my resolv.conf and find anything else that tries to do
resolving by contacting 127.0.0.1 directly ...

> this is the most secure way of doing things

The way I configured dnscache limits it to lan and localhost use. And with
BIND I put the same restriction. :)

> my experience with axfr before ( teleglobe being the slave) is i need
> to use a script called notify from http://tinydns.org

It seems to work fine but I'll check this out. :)

 --> Jijo

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