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Re: External Cache for LAN

To: Steve Lange <djbdns@wadsworthcity.com>
Subject: Re: External Cache for LAN
From: Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@sigpipe.cz>
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 18:16:23 +0000
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# djbdns@wadsworthcity.com / 2007-01-18 10:57:21 -0500:
> Now, I am trying to setup a djbdns external cache to work for my local
> network.  My goal is to have a DNS server for my LAN that can resolve
> internal network names, I'm not concerned with having a fully
> operational authoritative name server that is accessible from the
> Internet.

You'll still need an authoritative server to publish your internal
names (only the dnscache needs to have access to it).

> I am using CentOS 4.4 with djbdns 1.05 and I have allowed port
> 53 through the firewall, and I have disabled the firewall as well for
> testing.  I have verified that the external cache is running on the server
> with a 'ps-aux' command, and I can see the '172.16.0.99:53' listening on
> tcp

dnscache listens on 53/udp.

> I have read the documentation and followed the following guides:
>    http://www.djbdnsrocks.org/
>    http://www.lifewithdjbdns.com/#Example%20Configurations
>    http://flounder.net/djbdns/bind-to-djbdns.html

Why haven't you read the official documentation? :)

http://cr.yp.to/djbdns/run-cache-x.html
"How to run an external cache for your network"

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