Crib notes for setting up DJBDNS on Debian Lenny

Lawrence Sheed // 16 Mar 2009 // 2 Comments

This is a bit boring for non-techies, but useful for me as reference when I install a new server.

Sets up a a DNS caching server for the computer in question in order to speed up apache lookup, mail resolving etc.
Below assumes that server has no daemontools yadda yadda installed.

Setup in a shell script, and run as root. (If you trust me.)

Note, mostly filched from here – http://hydra.geht.net/tino/howto/linux/djbdns/ (Thanks!)

mkdir -p /downloads
cd /downloads

wget http://cr.yp.to/djbdns/djbdns-1.05.tar.gz
wget http://cr.yp.to/ucspi-tcp/ucspi-tcp-0.88.tar.gz
wget http://cr.yp.to/daemontools/daemontools-0.76.tar.gz

# Unpack patches
wget http://www.qmail.org/netqmail-1.05.tar.gz
tar xfz netqmail-1.05.tar.gz

# Compile the easy stuff

rm -rf djbdns-1.05
tar xfz djbdns-1.05.tar.gz
( cd djbdns-1.05; patch < ../netqmail-1.05/other-patches/daemontools-0.76.errno.patch; )
( cd djbdns-1.05; make; )

rm -rf ucspi-tcp-0.88
tar xfz ucspi-tcp-0.88.tar.gz
patch -p0 < netqmail-1.05/other-patches/ucspi-tcp-0.88.errno.patch
( cd ucspi-tcp-0.88; make; )

# Install the easy stuff

( cd djbdns-1.05; make setup check; )
( cd ucspi-tcp-0.88; make setup check; )

# Now compile and install daemontools.
# As this is run from /sbin/init this must live in root /

HERE="`pwd`"

mkdir -p /package
chmod 1755 /package
cd /package

rm -rf admin/daemontools-0.76
tar xfz "$HERE"/daemontools-0.76.tar.gz
( cd admin; patch -p0 <"$HERE"/netqmail-1.05/other-patches/daemontools-0.76.errno.patch; )
cd admin/daemontools-0.76
package/install

# Restart init to let init execute svscanboot

init q

# Add the resolver

groupadd dnscache
useradd -g dnscache dnscache
useradd -g dnscache dnslog

/usr/local/bin/dnscache-conf dnscache dnslog /var/dnscache

ln -s /var/dnscache /service
svc -u /service/dnscache

# Fix the nameservers to point to current ICANN structure
# This assumes you have dig installed

{
echo "nameserver 127.0.0.1"
cat /etc/resolv.conf
} >/etc/resolv.conf.new
mv --backup=t /etc/resolv.conf.new /etc/resolv.conf

# Patch in the current list of root servers
for a in a b c d e f g h i j k l m
do
dig +short $a.root-servers.net.
done > /var/dnscache/root/servers/\@

svc -d /service/dnscache
svc -u /service/dnscache