auth vs caching setup

[Francis Bustamante]

This was my main reason for having to do this.  I don't think
that I have enough hardware for a real caching server.

On Wed, 12
Apr 2000, Kevin Darcy wrote:

> Barry Margolin wrote:
> 
> > In article <PQ5J4.43790$E85.817669 at news1.rdc1.md.home.com>,
> > Chris Cell <ccell at home.com> wrote:
> > >This may be a rather green question, but what exactly would this do for you?
> > >Is it so the primary server only is responsible for zone transfers, and not
> > >answering to the outside world?
> >
> > It will answer to the outside world, but only for the zones that it's
> > authoritative for; if someone queries it for names in some other domain, it
> > will return a referral up to the root servers.  This reduces cache
> > corruption (you can reduce it even further by using "fetch-glue no" as
> > well).
> 
> It also reduces memory consumption, since you have less data being cached.
> 
> 
> - Kevin
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