Can someone post a good clean CACHE.DNS file?

Barry Margolin barmar at genuity.net
Thu Apr 25 13:57:37 UTC 2002


In article <aa89lf$7fm at pub3.rc.vix.com>,  <phn at icke-reklam.ipsec.nu> wrote:
>
>those who know me have no need of my name <not-a-real-address at usa.net> wrote:
>
>> <aa73ts$69l at pub3.rc.vix.com> divulged:
>>>Alex Batson <alex.batson at honeywell-tsi.com> wrote:
>
>>>> Can someone post a copy of a good CACHE.DNS from a WindowsNT4 platform?
>>>> Should my cache have the root-servers names in it, or the JGLD ones, and
>>>> what's the difference?
>>>
>>>Create it yourself : 
>>>dig . ns > cache.dns
>
>> something of a catch-22 here.  bind has a built-in list, but we're not
>> talking bind here.
>
>the above command will ask the nameservers mentioned in /etc/resolv.conf
>to get the current root-server list. Not what's in the nameservers
>root-cache.

But if resolv.conf is pointing to your own nameserver, whose list you're
trying to update, then it *is* a catch-22.

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Barry Margolin, barmar at genuity.net
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