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Re: [PLUG] Caching DNS Server
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On Thu, 29 Apr 2004, McLinux wrote:
> I would like to setup a caching DNS server on my Linux box. Can anyone
> point me to the sources where I can find bind and named?
First a little correction. :) bind *is* named.
Chances are there is a prepacked version for your distro. What distro are
you running? That will determine how you fetch & install bind for your
platform.
> On the net, I have found out that bind(9.2.x) has a nameserver built
> with it, but I could not figure out where it is. Has anyone done
> anything like this before?
All the time.
bind doesn't have a name server built in with it; bind *is* the name
server.
> I dont wish to use RPM's cause they are old and hence the insistence on
> the source.
Old? My yum repository says 9.2.2 plus security patches. The newest
stable release of bind is 9.2.3 which came out in October. The bugfixes
in 9.2.3 were rolled back into 9.2.2 by Red Hat. This is for RHEL 3.0 (or
a reasonable facsimile thereof).
Of course the beauty of RPM is that you can take the SRPM, download the
latest source, tweak your spec file, and spin out an RPM based on a newer
release if you'd like.
Since there is no difference in functionality between 9.2.2 and 9.2.3 and
the bugfixes have been applied by RHAT, I'd personally be more comfortable
letting RHAT maintain the bind packages to buy me time to do more
important things.
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