On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 07:49:03PM +0200, Daniel de los Reyes wrote: > Hi > > some of my linux servers inside a private range IP lan, are giving slow > responses to clients inside the lan connecting to ftp or ssh. > Whe had no DNS running. > It seems to me this is because proftpd and sshd are doing reverse DNS > lookups. > So I supose the way to solve this is to set up a dns server. > I started up setting up a cache dns server just doing apt-get install > task-dns-server, adding 127.0.0.1 to the server's resolv.conf and making > each machine in the network use this server as their DNS server. > It seems to work ok only thing is that if I do an nslookup from a > machine inside the network it fails because it can't find a name for the > dns server IP > I suppose the next step is to add an entry for the dns server and every > machine in the net in bind's resource files but I'm not quite sure, > since I am using private ip's.... > > Could someone light a torch over me?
Torch don't think so, not from me anyway:) I found the following 3 part series very helpful - http://www.linux.com/newsitem.phtml?sid=82&aid=7944 http://www.linux.com/newsitem.phtml?sid=82&aid=8051 http://www.linux.com/newsitem.phtml?sid=82&aid=8191 kent -- From seeing and seeing the seeing has become so exhausted First line of "The Panther" - R. M. Rilke
