[Gllug] Is my cheapo router really caching DNS?

[Richard Jones]

On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 08:06:30PM +0100, Adrian McMenamin wrote:
> Having read a quite good introduction to djbdns in the latest issue of
> Linux Journal I am tempted to set up a caching DNS server on my network,
> except that my router (a piece of cheap commodity kit) claims to be
> doing this already (see below). Is it really, or is it just redirecting
> these elsewhere and how can I tell?

Cheapo routers cause no end of trouble.  I highly recommend installing
dnsmasq (not djbdns).

Rich.

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