From: rich@example.invalid   
      
   Mike Spencer  wrote:   
   >   
   > Lew Pitcher  writes:   
   >> You could just run a caching nameserver on your slackware box, and   
   >> resolve /all/ DNS queries against that server. This way, the DNS   
   >> server maintains a fixed address (perhaps, "localhost", in your case)   
   >> and sendmail doesn't have to fish about for DNS resolution.   
   >   
   > I never thought of that.  The caching nameserver would have to be able   
   > to go to the right remote nameserver to update itself but that might   
   > be handled correctly.  One more thing to maintain kinda contravenes my   
   > preference for KISS but I'll have a look at that.   
      
   Slack 15 ships with bind config files suitable for running a caching   
   nameserver yourself.  You likely only need to turn on /etc/rc.d/rc.bind   
   (make it executable) to gain a local caching nameserver on the next   
   boot.   
      
   If you don't want to reboot just to get named started, then just make   
   rc.bind executable and then launch it as "rc.bind start" while you are   
   root.   
      
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