Configuration question of caching only name servers

[Barry Margolin]

In article <7v1eoc$mlr$1 at porthos.nl.uu.net>,
Manfred J.J. van der Voort <mvandervoort at hlm-triangle.nl> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>2 of my current Name Servers used by DNS-clients will be replaced by new
>ones.They server as Name Servers only for our internal IP-network; no
>Internet connection and name resolution.
>All DNS-clients referring to the old ones should be able to use them for
>name resolution during a transition period.
>I thought to configure the old ones as caching only name servers.
>
>I've read the paragraph "Caching-Only Servers" in DNS and BIND and thought
>it would be easy. I made the named.boot (BIND4), configured the zone file
>for 0.0.127.in-addr.arpa and I installed a root cache file. The last file
>has been changed to contain only the root server data for our internal
>IP-network. Unfortunately it doesn't work so far.

Are the servers that you listed in the root cache file actually configured
as root servers?  I.e. do they have:

primary . filename

in their named.boot files?  BIND expects the servers listed in the cache
file to be real root servers.

If this isn't the problem, you're going to have to be more descriptive
about how it's failing than just "it doesn't work so far."  What error
messages are you getting, what log messages are these servers producing,
etc.

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