[334] in athena10
Re: Caching DNS for Athena 10
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Mon Jul 28 17:04:17 2008
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: Kevin Chen <kchen@mit.edu>
Cc: athena10@mit.edu
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Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 16:58:15 -0400
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On Mon, 2008-07-28 at 16:48 -0400, Kevin Chen wrote:
> 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?
The idea is to configure dnsmasq to forward queries to the MIT name
servers instead of whatever's listed in resolv.conf. For BIND, the idea
would be changing it from a recursive resolver to a forwarding cache
using the MIT name servers.
It's not clear there is a practical benefit; it's just a way of making
the DNS configuration more MITish while we're in there. I will probably
not choose to implement it if no one can think of a practical reason to
do so.
