Solaris DNS (was Major Load)

[William Burns]

Rob:

I can't find the package name to install for the BIND/named server on
Solaris.
My solaris 8 test box doesn't have it...

Anyway... Assuming that you can do that, or.. that you've already got a
populated /var/named directory you're in good shape.

The man page on in.named is actually pretty good and shows an example
named.conf file that looks like it'll work for you.
You'll need to edit your named.conf to reflect what's on the man page,
and substituting your example upstream DNS servers for the ones that are
currently in your resolv.conf.

Before making any changes in your resolv.conf, or nsswitch, you'll want
to test w/ nslookup.
Run "nslookup server 127.0.0.1"
Then type in some domain names like www.ibm.com, www.att.com, etc.

If you change your resolv.conf and nsswitch before you get this working
properly, you'll get all kinds of name service timeouts and your machine
could become very unhappy.

-Bill


William Burns wrote:

> I'll check into the caching DNS on Solaris. It should be the same as on
> RedHat, it's just that there are some default caching config files that
> you can install on RedHat so most RedHat people never had to look at
> them.
> While you're waiting for that..
> Run nslookup. Do a few queries on names that you know are real. See what
> your response time is like.
>
> -Bill

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