Caching only Nameserver?

[Barry Margolin]

In article <3948f1c9.32835014 at news.rv.extension.net>,
Patrick Buedi <buedi at gmx.net> wrote:
>But the I rebooted my linux box and made the nslookup again... and...
>the box called out to my ISP, made the lookup and disconnected. I
>thought a caching only Server holds a database with all the IP <->
>names?? I think I made a mistake in my configuration, read different
>howto´s (dns-howto, man for bind and so on) but couldn´t find a
>solution for my Problem (where or why is there (no) database for named
>/ bind)?

Named keeps the cache in memory.  Restarting named wipes its memory, so the
cache is gone.

There's no way to save the cache across restarts.

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Barry Margolin, barmar at genuity.net
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