why need cache if has forward-only

[Barry Margolin]

In article <Z3CU3.45544$5W2.1035651 at news6.giganews.com>,
Clayton Tang <ctang at escape.com> wrote:
>> >3) unrelated to the files above.... I know named will cache results for
>name
>> >lookups outside of my domain. How do I know how many results have been
>> >cached, where are they cached, which ones are cached, etc.? Is there a
>tool
>> >to examine the cached results?
>>
>> "ndc dumpdb" will dump all of named's memory into a text file named
>> /usr/tmp/named_dump.db.
>
>where can I get "ndc"? I am running AIX4.3.2 and it's not anywhere in
>/usr...

It's part of the standard BIND distribution, which you can download from
www.isc.org.

"ndc dumpdb" is equivalent to "kill -INT <named PID>".  The first two pages
of Chapter 7 of the DNS&BIND book list all the signals you can send to
named.

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