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  From: Brad J <bjones@rebel.net.au>
  To  : 'Linux SA' <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>
  Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 03:06:57 +0930

Re: BIND

----- Original Message -----
From: "lloy0076" <lloy0076@rebel.net.au>
To: <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>
Sent: Monday, April 17, 2000 8:28 AM
Subject: BIND

<snip>

>
> i have the setup of /etc/resolv.conf of
>
> nameserver 0.0.0.0
> #nameserver 203.20.69.66
>
> it works
>
> If I uncomment the hash, will my LOCAL nameserver cache a reply from
> 203. That is to say, obviously when I start up my PPP connection, my
> local nameserver has little to no cache (I think). Hence when I first
> start up name service is slightly but not really that noticeably slower
> until I resolve the names I usually go to. It's particularly noticeable
> when there are a lot of banner ad links because my name server has to go
> find a query for the whole lot of them/
>

To speed up lookups and to cut down on traffic, try using a couple of domain
name servers as forwarders, so your bind checks to see if another server you
have specified as a forwarder has already resolved the ip your trying to
resolve. You can also set bind to forwarders only so it never looks up
address by itself only from the forwarders.
    I normally use my dialin isp's nameserver and ns1.telstra.net.au as my
forwarders, also running bind u get to name your internal network without
using hosts files.
Also i doubt you would be able to look up anything using 203.20.69.66 last
time i checked there was no name server running on rebel itself, try
203.20.69.2.

Brad


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