Setup Caching-Only DNS Server Using "Bind" in CentOS 6.5 | Linux Today

Setup Caching-Only DNS Server Using “Bind” in CentOS 6.5

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Ravi Saive
Sep 20, 2014

There are several type of DNS servers such as master, slave, forwarding and cache, among them Caching-Only DNS is the one, which is easier to setup. DNS use UDP protocol so it will reduce the query time because UDP protocol does not have an acknowledgement.

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Ravi Saive

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