[TriLUG] Re: Caching DNS (was Re: mozilla pause for ads)

[Lance A. Brown]

Jeremy Portzer wrote:
> Once you're sure the caching nameserver is working, change
> /etc/resolv.conf to use your local nameserver (127.0.0.1) as the first
> 'nameserver' line.  

Yep.

> P.S. I usually specify the upstream ISP's servers as 'forwarders' to
> reduce load on the root servers.  For example, in /etc/named.conf, in
> the first section ("options"), I have these lines:
>         forwarders{
>                 192.101.21.1; 128.109.131.3; 207.217.126.11;
>         };

Which puts you back at the mercy of their possibly FUBAR'd DNS service...

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