cache only dns servers

cactus · 2005-07-05 01:40:41

Anyone know of good cache only dns servers?
I was fiddling around with dproxy and maradns. I put both of them in the aur.
dproxy seems a bit simplistic for my needs. It works great caching A records, but it doesn't cache MX records.

I haven't tested maradns yet, just made a package.

I know I can use bind, but ick!
I generally dont like djb's stuff either. I don't want to add daemonutils just to use dns-cache either. *shrug*

Anyway..any of you archers know of other good caching dns servers?

colnago · 2005-07-05 02:00:32

dnscache

It is very easy to set up. Just pacman it and put a symlink in /service and change /etc/resolv.conf to 'nameserver 127.0.0.1'.

cactus · 2005-07-05 02:58:35

well, I did mention I wasn't interested in djb's software, but I suppose I could give it a shot anyway.

colnago · 2005-07-05 03:24:12

Sorry, I am having too much coffee and not enough reading.

i3839 · 2005-07-05 16:07:49

I use dnsmasq.

cactus · 2005-07-05 17:10:15

oooh. it supports mx records too.
Do you have to run the dhcp portion of it, or can you just run the dns forward/cacher? Had any problems with it?

i3839 · 2005-07-05 22:44:45

The dhcp part is only run if you tell it to. My experience with dnsmasq is good, it gave never any problems.

I run it from rc.local the following way:

dnsmasq -r /etc/ppp/resolv.conf -i eth0 
--dhcp-range=10.0.0.3,10.0.0.9 --dhcp-leasefile=/etc/leasefile 
-A /googlesyndication.com/127.0.0.1 
-A /doubleclick.net/127.0.0.1 
-A /valueclick.com/127.0.0.1 
-A /fastclick.net/127.0.0.1 
-A /bizrate.com/127.0.0.1

The -r tells dnamsq where to find the real dns servers, the -i tells it which interfaces may have access to dnsmasq (including localhost), and the -A stuff is to redirect certain domains wholy to localhost (which you can't do with resolv.conf because of subdomains). I probably should use the configfile, but didn't bother yet.

cactus · 2005-07-07 02:19:46

thanks for the info...i will give it a shot.
I took colnago's advice, and installed djbdns, and was just using dnscache. (for about a day)
I think I will try dnsmasq though, as it seems simpler, and doesn't rely on other packages (like daemonutils).

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cache only dns servers

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