"Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA" <bobgood...@wildblue.net> writes:
> My ISP appears to have a dns problem today. it has been taking as > much as one minute to deal wit an address! I appears that we are > locked into using the Viasat provided dns, the usual alternatives > like opndns do not work. > > I installed caching-nameserver which seems to restore things to normal. > > yum install caching-nameserver > > I have two questions: > > 1: It seems to me that it must have to collect and accumulate > it's own list of addresses which would mean it is normal for it > to work faster the second time an address is requested of it? > > 2: Is there a practical way to share my Linux dns with other > [Apple Mac, etc.] computers on our LAN? You could as well install bind instead and allow clients to use it. Fedora has system-config-bind-gui to make it easy to set up. When you are at it, you could add squid and let the clients use it as well ... -- Fedora 17 -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
