You need to install bind (and maybe bind-utils) and the
'caching-nameserver' rpm.
You setup your resolve.conf to have 127.0.0.1 as your primary
nameserver, and your ISP nameservers as secondary.
The caching only nameserver will use the ISP nameserver if it is not
cached, and cache it, speeding up the next lookup.
It's no so scary. try it.
charles
On Fri, 31 Mar 2000, Bjornson, Matt wrote:
> Are you using your ISP's DNS server for the primary DNS server? I have Red
> Hat 6.1 installed, you are saying that a caching DNS is set up default? What
> do I have to configure for this? I am just a little intimidated by DNS!
>
> Thanks Matt
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Charles Galpin
> Sent: Friday, March 31, 2000 10:56 AM
> To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> Subject: Re: DHCP versus DNS
>
>
> I highly recommend DHCP if you want to conenct your laptop to other
> networks too. It's very easy to setup.
>
> As far as DNS goes, I recommend doing what I do for my small network -
>
> setup a caching only DNS server for you server (works out of the rpm) so
> it get's good performance, and just use host files everywhere.
>
> charles
>
> On Fri, 31 Mar 2000, Bjornson, Matt wrote:
>
> > I am setting up a small network with 2 linux servers and 1 windows client.
> > I will be connected to the internet 24 7 via DSL and will have Apache
> > running for web services. I might also have a laptop that might connect
> > every once in a while to the network too that is running Windows. My
> > question is this it seems that DHCP is much easier to set up and configure
> > than DNS, what is the general opinion on the selection on DHCP over DNS?
> > Are their security issues that I have neglected ( because of the full time
> > internet connection). thanks matt
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