From Kathmann Labs
[edit] Bind DNS Internet Caching Server
- Having a simple Bind DNS Internet Caching server can be useful in many situations. Bind does not actually contain any zone data. It merely resolves internet domain names against the root DNS servers and keeps a local cached copy of addresses it has already resolved. This has several advantages such as:
- Speeds up DNS resolution on the local machine
- Offload some of the work onto a DNS caching server (DNS itself requires very little resources though)
- Reduces the load on your internet link
- The ideal places to install a caching DNS server are:
- Proxy Servers
- Email Servers & Gateways
- Anything that resolves internet addresses for a large portion of it's traffic
[edit] Hardware
- Dell Poweredge SC440 (virtualized)
- Bind requires very little resources, and can easily run on embedded devices with small amounts of CPU & RAM
[edit] Software
- Bind
[edit] Web Links
- Bind Web Page
[edit] How-tos
- Install and configure Bind DNS Caching Server on Red Hat (CentOS) Distributions
- Install and configure Bind DNS Caching Server on Debian (Ubuntu) Distributions
- Test your DNS Server with NSLOOKUP
