/etc/resolv.conf

Barry Margolin barmar at alum.mit.edu
Tue Jun 22 20:41:26 UTC 2004


In article <cb9so2$1q5n$1 at sf1.isc.org>, "Matt" <nospam.hciss at yahoo.com> 
wrote:

> If you want your Linux box to act as a caching DNS server using root servers
> do you leave /etc/resolv.conf blank or what?

/etc/resolv.conf has no impact on how the server operates.  It's 
configured entirely in named.conf.  /etc/resolv.conf is configures the 
stub resolver used by the rest of the system.

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Barry Margolin, barmar at alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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