Questions on Caching Only NameServer

Len Conrad LConrad at Go2France.com
Mon Aug 20 10:13:05 UTC 2001



>1) Where does the caches data being stored in the Caching Only NameServer ?
>Is it in the memory or harddisk ? What is the best specifications to setup
>the server?

memory

>2) What will happen to the caches data if  I killed the services, reboot or
>down the server?

DNS cache data is lost

>3) What is the best products to run a Caching Only NameServer ?

BIND8 or BIND9, latest versions.

Your idea of separating delegated/registererd DNS´s from  resolving/caching 
DNS´s is a good one: performance, security, redundance.

Len


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