Looking for a localhost cacheing nameserver?

Back in the day I would use dnscache and sometimes even bind for local network or localhost cacheing recursive DNS. I was hoping there was a newer, better, faster and easier to setup / maintain solution in 2012....

I found unbound. http://unbound.net/

If you have a server that does tons of DNS lookups (think SIEM), then this is a must.

Debian/Ubuntu:
apt-get install unbound

Redhat/Centos:
yum install unbound

It's secure and listens only on 127.0.0.1 by default. How cool is that?

Lastly don't forget to update resolv.conf...

echo "nameserver 127.0.0.1" > /etc/resolv.conf

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ArcOSI 30 released

Added new sources, some parsing fixes and the feature to specify a custom port via command line. Currently only the python code is release but will compile the windows binary later today.

Download @ code.google.com/p/arcosi

-Greg