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Re: Caching DNS for Athena 10
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kevin Chen)
Mon Jul 28 16:51:09 2008
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 16:48:47 -0400 (EDT)
From: Kevin Chen <kchen@MIT.EDU>
To: ghudson@mit.edu
cc: athena10@mit.edu
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On Mon, 28 Jul 2008, Kevin Chen wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Jul 2008, ghudson@MIT.EDU wrote:
>
>> 4. (Optional) Configure the caching named to forward to MIT name servers
>
>> (4) is an easy configuration tweak to dnsmasq, and a slightly harder
>> one to bind9.
>
> What's the benefit of doing so?
I misread this in my reply.
Do you mean the current Athena behavior of forwarding queries for mit.edu
to the DNS servers authoritative for mit.edu, or do you mean having a
caching nameserver that forwards all queries to the MIT DNS servers?
--
Kevin Chen
http://www.sneswhiz.com/
