jeffrey+lists@??? said:
> In the past, there has been a lot of debate about the usefulness of
> caching only and/or local name servers and opinions vary. Also, I
> have never (well, hardly ever) set up a caching only name server, and
> can't advise on how to do that.
If you have less than perfect connectivity to all the sites where your
correspondents host DNS, then a caching name server can be *very*
useful indeed. I now run one on the exim.org machine due to occasional
DNS oddities, and the extra cache has helped greatly.
However I would not advise BIND for a cache only name server of this
type. Look at Dan Berstein's DNS cache - look at
http://cr.yp.to/djbdns.html
Nigel.
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