diff --git a/cache.go b/cache.go
index 126491e..6d80acd 100644
--- a/cache.go
+++ b/cache.go
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ import (
 	"sync"
 	"time"
 
+	"github.com/bradfitz/gomemcache/memcache"
 	"github.com/hoisie/redis"
 	"github.com/miekg/dns"
 )
@@ -50,8 +51,13 @@ type Cache interface {
 	Get(key string) (Msg *dns.Msg, err error)
 	Set(key string, Msg *dns.Msg) error
 	Exists(key string) bool
-	Remove(key string)
-	Length() int
+	Remove(key string) error
+	Full() bool
+}
+
+type Serializer interface {
+	Loads([]byte) (*dns.Msg, error)
+	Dumps(*dns.Msg) ([]byte, error)
 }
 
 type MemoryCache struct {
@@ -91,10 +97,11 @@ func (c *MemoryCache) Set(key string, msg *dns.Msg) error {
 	return nil
 }
 
-func (c *MemoryCache) Remove(key string) {
+func (c *MemoryCache) Remove(key string) error {
 	c.mu.Lock()
 	delete(c.Backend, key)
 	c.mu.Unlock()
+	return nil
 }
 
 func (c *MemoryCache) Exists(key string) bool {
@@ -118,6 +125,68 @@ func (c *MemoryCache) Full() bool {
 	return c.Length() >= c.Maxcount
 }
 
+/*
+Memcached backend
+*/
+
+func NewMemcachedCache(servers []string, expire int32) *MemcachedCache {
+	c := memcache.New(servers...)
+	return &MemcachedCache{
+		backend:    c,
+		serializer: &JsonSerializer{},
+		expire:     expire,
+	}
+}
+
+type MemcachedCache struct {
+	backend    *memcache.Client
+	serializer Serializer
+	expire     int32
+}
+
+func (m *MemcachedCache) Set(key string, msg *dns.Msg) error {
+	var val []byte
+	var err error
+
+	// handle cases for negacache where it sets nil values
+	if msg == nil {
+		val = []byte("nil")
+	} else {
+		val, err = m.serializer.Dumps(msg)
+	}
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	return m.backend.Set(&memcache.Item{Key: key, Value: val, Expiration: m.expire})
+}
+
+func (m *MemcachedCache) Get(key string) (msg *dns.Msg, err error) {
+	item, err := m.backend.Get(key)
+	if err != nil {
+		err = KeyNotFound{key}
+		return
+	}
+	msg, err = m.serializer.Loads(item.Value)
+	return
+}
+
+func (m *MemcachedCache) Exists(key string) bool {
+	_, err := m.backend.Get(key)
+	if err != nil {
+		return true
+	}
+	return false
+}
+
+func (m *MemcachedCache) Remove(key string) error {
+	return m.backend.Delete(key)
+}
+
+func (m *MemcachedCache) Full() bool {
+	// memcache is never full (LRU)
+	return false
+}
+
 /*
 TODO: Redis cache Backend
 */
@@ -149,16 +218,18 @@ func KeyGen(q Question) string {
 	return key
 }
 
+/* we need to define marsheling to encode and decode
+ */
 type JsonSerializer struct {
 }
 
 func (*JsonSerializer) Dumps(mesg *dns.Msg) (encoded []byte, err error) {
-	encoded, err = json.Marshal(mesg)
+	encoded, err = json.Marshal(*mesg)
 	return
 }
 
-func (*JsonSerializer) Loads(data []byte, mesg **dns.Msg) error {
-	err := json.Unmarshal(data, mesg)
-	return err
-
+func (*JsonSerializer) Loads(data []byte) (*dns.Msg, error) {
+	var mesg dns.Msg
+	err := json.Unmarshal(data, &mesg)
+	return &mesg, err
 }
diff --git a/godns.conf b/godns.conf
index 692a888..e6633e8 100644
--- a/godns.conf
+++ b/godns.conf
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ servers = ["127.0.0.1:11211"]
 [log]
 stdout = true
 file = "./godns.log"
-level = "INFO"  #DEBUG | INFO |NOTICE | WARN | ERROR  
+level = "DEBUG"  #DEBUG | INFO |NOTICE | WARN | ERROR  
 
 
 
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ level = "INFO"  #DEBUG | INFO |NOTICE | WARN | ERROR
 # backend option [memory|memcache|redis]	
 # redis backend not implemented yet
 backend = "memory"  
-expire = 600  # 10 minutes
+expire = 6000  # 10 minutes
 maxcount = 0 #If set zero. The Sum of cache itmes will be unlimit.
 
 [hosts]
diff --git a/handler.go b/handler.go
index a1acc8e..b8a26f4 100644
--- a/handler.go
+++ b/handler.go
@@ -61,6 +61,13 @@ func NewHandler() *GODNSHandler {
 			Expire:   time.Duration(cacheConfig.Expire) * time.Second / 2,
 			Maxcount: cacheConfig.Maxcount,
 		}
+	case "memcache":
+		cache = NewMemcachedCache(
+			settings.Memcache.Servers,
+			int32(cacheConfig.Expire))
+		negCache = NewMemcachedCache(
+			settings.Memcache.Servers,
+			int32(cacheConfig.Expire/2))
 	case "redis":
 		// cache = &MemoryCache{
 		// 	Backend:    make(map[string]*dns.Msg),