DNS and Linux RH 7.1 setup question

[kentborg at borg.org (Kent Borg)]

On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 04:03:13PM -0400, Robert La Ferla wrote:
> I am looking to set up a DNS server on Linux RH 7.1 that:
> 
> 1.  Serves internal addresses of LAN hosts to a small LAN of Windows
> 2000 machines.  e.g. myhost1.localdomain, myhost2.localdomain,
> myhost15.localdomain, etc...
> 
> 2.  Caches external addresses for everything else.  e.g www.cnn.com,
> etc...
> 
> I would think this would be a common set up.  Has anyone done this?

Not on 7.1, but on 7.0 I do that with tinydns/dnscache.  Look at
<http://cr.yp.to> for details.

Its setup is quite different from bind, but it doesn't have all the
security holes*.  It is free, source code is open, but the license is
ornery in ways that keep it off standard distributions.

Give it a look.  If you have questions I might be able to help.


-kb, the Kent who finds both bind and sendmail frighteningly buggy,
and so he uses neither.


* Some think the internet could collapse tomorrow.  If it did, mostly
likely it would be because of bugs in bind that brought down the root
servers.  Very scary.
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