Caching DNS server on OpenBSD?

[kleptophobiac]

I'm hoping to set up a DNS cache on my OpenBSD 3.5 box - but I really don't want to use djbdns or bind. djbdns requires that goofy daemontools, and bind is a juggernaut of a program for what I need to do.

Has anybody done it some other way?

 

[draconius]

any particular reason for not wanting to use bind? I found it fairly easy to pick up on and configure, and I use it for both my primary name server on the internet, and my cache nameserver for my lan....keeping it updated is about the only thing I have really had to do with ti..

 

[QwertyJuan]

like are you guys talking about a 2k domain??

n00b to anything linux/unix/BSD

QJ

 

[shieldforyoureyes]

daemontools drove me away from djbdns too.
I've been meaning to play with bind on openbsd, and just
haven't gotten around to it. I've been told using bind as
a cache is its default behaviour, and it's little more then
enabling it.

 

[kleptophobiac]

I'm not too worried about setting up bind, I'm more worried about the huge number of security holes that are always cropping up in it.

I ended up getting djbdns to work. daemontools isn't so bad, though I'd have preferred not to have it.

 

[vxspiritxv]

Wouldn't worry too much about security, as long as your kernel is up to date, bind runs in a chroot & non root user (when set up correctly). Hasn't been a bad buffer overflow in the software in 2 years. *Not counting denial of service Vulnerabilities*