BIND vs ncsd

[Peter Russell]

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Thanks will look at that now. But not just rbls, but i guess every email 
is subjected to a number of DNS tests, eg PTR lookups?
Thanks
Pete

Michele Neylon :: Blacknight wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-07-15 at 08:38 +1000, Peter Russell wrote:
> 
>>I have 3 RHEL4 servers, i wish to use some form of caching name service. 
>>as i understand it nscd is installed and thats it. Or can install the 
>>caching name service for BIND and then change the resolv conf to point 
>>to the local host first?
>>
>>According to the network guys the mailscanner servers are hammering his 
>>DNS server and he wants me to reduce the traffic (i wouldnt have thought 
>>it would be a big deal with only 6-10k messages per day?).
>>
>>Which method is most desirable? Or is there a better way?
> 
> Caching the DNSBLs I presume?
> If so you should look at rbldnsd.
> 
> My howto may help (or hinder) you:
> http://www.mneylon.com/blog/archives/2004/11/13/dns-blacklists-setting-up-a-local-mirror/
> 
> Michele
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