Tony Houghton wrote: > Gary V wrote: > > Tony Houghton wrote: > > > Gary V wrote: > > > > What OS are you running? > > > > > > Linux.
Sigh. > > Exactly which distrubution and version of that distribution? > > Sorry, Debian unstable amd64. Setting up a caching nameserver is documented for various operating systems on the SA wiki page. I also run Debian amd64. http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/CachingNameserver For your Debian machine it is very easy with the following commands. $ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install bind9 The default package configuration is a caching nameserver and the above commands should be all that is needed to set up and configure it this way. Check /etc/resolv.conf for nameserver entries and modify or change the file as needed to say 'nameserver 0.0.0.0' (okay to use 'nameserver 127.0.0.1' with modern software too). See the wiki page for general information. I highly recommend the 'resolvconf' package to coordinate the automated editing of the /etc/resolv.conf file by the various subsystems such as dhcp, dns, udev scripts, etc. $ sudo apt-get install resolvconf The resolvconf scripts run when the interface is brought online. Since the network will already be online when resolvconf is installed it won't do anything with /etc/resolv.conf at that moment but will rewrite that file the next time the networking for an interface is restarted. Especially for dhcp interfaces this nicely coordinates and wraps up the configuration so that the nameserver entries are updated automatically. > SA has been slow on it for ages; it's only recently I got fed that > up with it, mainly due to coming back from a holiday. It "works for me" on my Debian amd64 machine. (shrug) Bob
