[Dnsmasq-discuss] replacing bind even more

Simon Kelley simon at thekelleys.org.uk
Fri Apr 14 14:25:09 BST 2006


Eric S. Johansson wrote:
> I had to switch fat pipe providers recently and the new name servers 
> (owned by Comcast) seem to be the slowest pieces of "computing" I have 
> ever seen.  In days long past I would just run bind and be my own name 
> server feeding off of the root name servers.  Today, I don't want to 
> work so hard and I wonder if there's any way I can use dnsmasq and feed 
> off of the root name servers?
> 
> ---eric

Not directly: dnsmasq need a recursive nameserver to talk to, and that 
is not going to change. You might be able to use djbdns as the recursive 
server, and have dnsmasq talk to that.

Cheers,

Simon.



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