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Comment: link to three external resources for BIND; further explain forwarding and plural

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yum install caching-nameserver
chkconfig named on
service named start

BIND Resources

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    \[http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/dns5/ O'Reilly DNS and BIND book\]
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    \[http://www.reedmedia.net/books/bind-dns/ BIND 9 DNS Administration Reference Book\]
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    \[http://www.menandmice.com/knowledgehub/dnsglossary DNS Glossary\]
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Installing dnsmasq as a Caching Nameserver

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Sometimes is better to always use your ISP DNS servers, because you may have a faster connection to your ISP's DNS servers than to the DNS Root serverservers and it helps create a large site-wide cache and reduces traffic to outside nameservers.

Here are the BIND named.conf options to only resolve using your ISP DNS Servers, the response is always cached in your local DNS Caching server:

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