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While we saw here how to setup a Cisco Router as a Caching/Forwarding DNS Server. We can now look at how to make your Cisco Router as an Authoritative DNS server. When configured as an authoritative name server for its own local host table, the router listens on port 53 for DNS queries and then answers DNS queries using the permanent and cached entries in its own host table. Careful consideration has to be given as this can consume considerable amount of resources like CPU cycles on the Cisco Router. If you are a small network and realise your Cisco ROuter is under utilised thenRead More →

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A Cisco Router running Cisco IOS can function as a Caching or Forwarding DNS Server which answers to DNS queries from clients either from its host table or cache or forward it to a DNS server which can respond to the query. This feature can come in handy in small network environments where the router can act as a Caching DNS server forwarding queries to the ISPs DNS servers or infact any external DNS servers. Also, makes sense using on under utilized DNS servers.Read More →