DNS and Linux RH 7.1 setup question

[bpmedley at 4321.tv (Brian Medley)]

On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 10:37:36AM -0400, Thorin 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?

Interesting.  I just installed dnscache last night to do something very
similar.  However, for your needs, it looks like tinydns+dnscache would be
better:

http://www.faqts.com/knowledge_base/view.phtml/aid/8740/fid/699
http://www.faqts.com/knowledge_base/view.phtml/aid/8781/fid/699
http://cr.yp.to/djbdns.html

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