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Setting up a caching DNS at home

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Oct 30, 2009

[ Thanks to Svein
Wisnaes
for this link. ]

“The place for bind9 configuration files can differ a little
between Linux distributions. On Ubuntu servers they are located in
/etc/bind with the zonefiles placed under /etc/bind/zones .

“The standard install of bind9 on Ubuntu server is to act as a
caching DNS. But for this to work, you need to tell it where to
look for an adress that it can not resolve locally. So you need to
edit a file called named.conf.options.”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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