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BIND (is there anyting else?)

Speedup tips

> I have built a local DNS server bind (Debian Sarge).The DNS should
> accelerate DNS look ups by LAN clients.
> But Now, in contrary the local dns is slower than a custom DNS by my
> webhoster :-(

You should use BIND 9, disable lookups over IPv6 (OPTIONS="-u bind -4"
in /etc/defaults/bind9), and you need to wait a bit until the local
cache has been filled.

Letting bind/named query a specific DNS server for only one specific domain

Add to the file /etc/bind/named.conf.local:

zone "mydomain.com" {
	type forward;
	forward only;
	forwarders { 192.168.0.2; 192.168.0.6; };
};

Of course you need to replace 'mydomain.com' as well as the 2 ip addresses in the 'forwarders'-line.

Unsorted

host -t txt -c CHAOS version.bind localhost

named - options {version “DNS daemon”;};

host -t txt -c CHAOS hostname.bind localhost

gethostbyname()