MediaOne/RR/AT&T cablemodemers alert

[Derek D. Martin]

On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 05:19:42PM -0400, Derek Atkins wrote:
> Setting up a caching-only nameserver requires you to:
> 	1) install the nameserver binary (this is easy under RedHat and Debian)
> 	2) run the nameserver
> 	3) set resolv.conf to point to 127.0.0.1
> 
> I would highly recommend you do this.

There is a little more to it than that.  You need to have a named.conf
in /etc that does the right stuff, and you need to have a named.ca
file in (by default) /var/named, which points to the root DNS servers.
Fortunately, RH (and others no doubt) provide a package that does this
for you.  The specific package is caching-nameserver-X.Y-Z, where X,Y,
and Z depend on your distro, of course.

If you don't have that package installed, you'll need to install it or
alternately create those files appropriately by hand.  The package is
easier. :)

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