Caching nameserver

[lesmikesell at gmail.com (Les Mikesell)]

On Mon, 2005-08-08 at 13:23, eli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > 
> > the OS is now CentOS4
> 
> If you only need caching, then try using something simpler, and more 
> secure, than bind.

Note that Centos4 runs bind under a non-root uid and in a chroot
jail, so it should be as secure as you can get.

>  Try dnsmasq (it can run a dhcp-server too, but that 
> is easily disabled) or dns-cache (a djb software utility).
> 
> I prefer dnsmasq myself. Simple, but effective.

You can't get much simpler than
yum install bind
 and if needed, add the forwarders to named.conf

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