cache only

[Barry Margolin]

In article <200001021315.FAA26676 at isrv3.isc.org>,
Marek Narkiewicz  <marek at welshdragon.com> wrote:
>I wish to run a few nameds on some mail hubs at work. I want each mail
>hub to have a named 
>on localhost to speed up lookups etc however I do not want to admin that
>many servers. In 
>short I want to set them up to look up from localhost only and not to
>serve any domains. How 
>is this accomplished? Should I simply run a normal named with only the
>loopback 0.0.127.in-
>addr.arpa zone in thre config file?

Yes.  If a server isn't authoritative for any real zones, it's a
caching-only server by default.

You might also want to specify 'allow-query { localhost; };' if these
nameservers are just for the local machine to use.

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