I decided to install another caching dns server , after some research I found PowerDNS. it uses MySQL for storing its zones , but hopefully its caching component doesnt need mysql , so great , lets go and install it.
My favourite OS is debian lenny , so I ran the following command :
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apt-get install pdns-recursor |
WOW , it was very simple ! it is already working on localhost , but I needed it to listen on all IPs on my box and accept queries from everyone 
I wanted to serve public :p so I went to /etc/powerdns and opened “recursor.conf” file and made the following changes :
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allow-from= |
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local-address=0.0.0.0 |
and restarted the service by :
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/etc/init.d/pdns-recursor restart |
it’s done now it is working as a public caching name server.
