caching DNS with dialup connection
Hanspeter Roth
hanspeter_roth at hotmail.com
Mon Jul 29 19:23:41 UTC 2002
On Jul 29 at 19:01, phn at icke-reklam.ipsec.nu spoke:
> Bind initially contacts whatever if found in it's hint-file. This
> is needed to find every other nameserver.
>
> You will have to accept that when bind starts it does this.
>
> To prevent bind to continuously contact other nameserver you
> may use the 'dialup' option statement ( bind-9 seems to have
> the most controls over this )
>
> See bind-9 manual section 6.2.14.1. Boolean Options , also
> seek in google for "dialup" and "bind" as i remember there was
> a discussion about this some months ago.
Ok. But I'de like to leave the `out of the box' version which still
often is 8.x.
Would `forward only' mode be a recommendation?
-Hanspeter
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