RE: Tuning Bind9?

On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 fredrik.pettai@vattenfall.com wrote:
> >
> >I had similar problems. I solved them using rbldnsd as the backend for
> >DNSBL zones, with named in front of it.
> >
>
> Could you be more specific? Are you running both named and rbldnsd, on
> the same server? (then you would need virtual IPs atleast?) And with
> named infront of it?... By doing forwarding to the "rbl-zone" in
> named.conf?
>


here's what I'm doing:

. both named and rbldnsd are running on the same server

. rbldnsd listens on 127.0.0.1 port 54

. the DNSBL stanzas in named.conf are setup like this:

zone "dnsbl.sorbs.net" in {
type forward;
forward only;
forwarders { 127.0.0.1 port 54; };
};


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