cache-only server

[Kevin Darcy]

Danny Mayer wrote:

> At 12:10 PM 11/27/00 -0500, Kevin Darcy wrote:
> >> will it help if I add the primary and secondary dns on the
> >> /etc/resolve file? so it will not just go the the root server to query
> >> the information?
> >
> >named never looks at /etc/resolv.conf. Also, named won't go to the root
> >servers for any queries if it already has referral information cached for
> >the domain in question. So you shouldn't see root server queries very
> >often.
>
>                 You are misinformed about this at least in regard to the resolve file
>   on the  name server.  named 8.2.x reads this file at startup.

Whatever. It may *read* the file at startup, as a side-effect of initializing the
resolver routines, but it doesn't *use* any of the contents of the file in any
meaningful way.


- Kevin