On Tue, 2010-01-05 at 18:22 +1030, Tim wrote: > On Tue, 2010-01-05 at 00:39 +0000, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > I installed bind and tried to use it as a basic cacheing nameserver, > > which in principal just means running named and > > pointing /etc/resolv.conf to 127.0.0.1. However resolv.conf keeps > > getting overwritten by NetworkManager, > > Are you able to configure your DHCP server? On my network, my DHCP > server tells all the clients to use my DNS server, because that's how > I've configured it, and everything is hunky dory. Not in general. This is a netbook and I'm moving around. On my home desktop I have a wired connection and IIRC everything Just Works. > If you're trying to ignore information from your DHCP server (because > you can't configure it), then you need to play with configuring your > DHCP client. That used to be by the /etc/dhclient.conf file, but I seem > to recall that you'd put a special copy of the options into some other > location, one read by Network Manager. There is no dhclient.conf file anywhere in the system. > > I notice an excessive number of "Resolving foo ..." messages from > > Firefox and Chrome, i.e. no cacheing is being done as far as I can > > tell. Note that I didn't touch named.conf or any other config files. > > If the domains being resolved set silly zero-second (or similar) record > life data, then your caching name server is going to honour that. But > are you sure that those warnings are about the same records over and > over? I haven't checked in detail but I'll make a note of that. > I've noticed that, at least in the past, Firefox will do some of its own > caching. i.e. The next time it needs a connection to example.com, > Firefox uses the same IP without consulting a DNS server. It's been > necessary to quit and restart Firefox to test changes to DNS records. I'm using Chrome at the moment, as it's lighter weight on a netbook. > You might want to play with the dig tool and your name server. I've been using dig to check lookups. poc -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
