BIND Authorative forwarding caching server
Brad Knowles
brad at stop.mail-abuse.org
Fri Nov 4 23:52:43 UTC 2005
At 3:13 PM -0800 2005-11-04, dan at nameplanet.com wrote:
> Rather
> than having many DNS servers, I was hoping to have some
> caching/forwarding slaves that all forward to a couple of masters, so
> that each slave wont need it's own extenal database.
BIND can serve data in one of two ways -- as an authoritative
server, or as a caching server. Either way, you've got some sort of
database that you're operating from.
Your caching resolvers are presumably going to serve data from a
lot of domains other than the ones that you own yourself. What's
wrong with having them cache the data from your own servers? If
there is a problem with caching the data from your own servers, then
why not set the TTLs really low?
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