{"id":76,"date":"2009-03-16T19:22:32","date_gmt":"2009-03-16T11:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.computersolutions.cn\/blog\/?p=76"},"modified":"2009-03-26T01:36:05","modified_gmt":"2009-03-25T17:36:05","slug":"crib-notes-for-setting-up-djbdns-on-debian-lenny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.computersolutions.cn\/blog\/2009\/03\/crib-notes-for-setting-up-djbdns-on-debian-lenny\/","title":{"rendered":"Crib notes for setting up DJBDNS on Debian Lenny"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is a bit boring for non-techies, but useful for me as reference when I install a new server.<\/p>\n

Sets up a a DNS caching server for the computer in question in order to speed up apache lookup, mail resolving etc.
\nBelow assumes that server has no daemontools yadda yadda installed.<\/p>\n

Setup in a shell script, and run as root. (If you trust me.)<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Note, mostly filched from here – http:\/\/hydra.geht.net\/tino\/howto\/linux\/djbdns\/<\/a> (Thanks!)<\/p>\n

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