Caching name server

[Barry Margolin]

In article <dr21m3$23ap$1 at sf1.isc.org>,
 narendar reddy <narendarreddy.pagadala at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have st up BIND9 as authoritative server for some domains.
> Now i want to set up it as cache only name server.
> zone "."
>  { type hint;
>  file "root.servers <root-servers.html>"; };
> 
> 
> But instead of above db.cache file, i want to cache from
> other BIND9 name server in my LAN only.
> 
> Please clarify me How to target my cache server to some other
> name server in my LAN itself.

options {
  forward only;
  forwarders { <address of other server> };
};

> also tell me the command to run BIND9 as a threaded name server.

If it was compiled with threading support, it will use it automatically.

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