Re: LYNX-DEV Optimizing relative URLs

[David Woolley]

>   It needn't affect dialup users, as there is nothing that says they
>   can't run a local caching nameserver.  I've started doing this because
>   nameservice is one of the most overloaded functions at my ISP.
> 
> David, would it be easy for you to break out a script fragment
> showing how you do this?
> 

You create /etc/named.boot with 
  directory /etc
  cache      .                                               root.cache
  forwarders <space separated list of your external nameservers>
  domain <default domain name>

Put the root nameservers into root.cache:

;
.                       999999  IN      NS      G.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
                        999999  IN      NS      A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
                        999999  IN      NS      H.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
                        999999  IN      NS      B.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
                        999999  IN      NS      C.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
                        999999  IN      NS      D.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
                        999999  IN      NS      E.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
                        999999  IN      NS      I.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
                        999999  IN      NS      F.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.


;
;  Prep the cache (hotwire the addresses).  Order does not matter
;

G.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.     999999  IN      A       192.112.36.4
A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.     999999  IN      A       198.41.0.4
H.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.     999999  IN      A       128.63.2.53
B.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.     999999  IN      A       128.9.0.107
C.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.     999999  IN      A       192.33.4.12
D.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.     999999  IN      A       128.8.10.90
E.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.     999999  IN      A       192.203.230.10
I.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.     999999  IN      A       192.36.148.17
F.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.     999999  IN      A       192.5.5.241


and then, as root, run named.  (I run it in the ppp-up script and kill it
in ppp-down, as it generates lots of log failure messages if left up.)
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