Setup Internal caching DNS Server

[Les Mikesell]

On Thu, 2005-11-10 at 11:07, Tim wrote:

> >> However, there are some ISPs which set up filtering that will
> >> prevent you from resolving names yourselves (perhaps they want to
> >> enforce their censoring?).
> 
> Kenneth Porter:
> > If this is restricted to specific domains, use "stub" domains in your 
> > named.conf to selectively forward those domains to the ISP servers.
> 
> In which case, you still wouldn't be able to resolve what they
> blocked...
> 
> Anyway, when an ISP decides to prevent users from the user running their
> own DNS server, it's usually done by them preventing you from making
> outgoing connections on the ported used for DNS queries.  Either
> blocking it, or forcing you through their own systems (like transparent
> proxying).

If you set up 'forwarders' in named.conf pointing to the ISP's
DNS but don't add the 'forward-only' option, it should query and
cache the ISP's response, but if that fails it will attempt a
direct lookup.  I'm not sure ISP is the right name for something
that blocks DNS, though.

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   Les Mikesell
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