Looking at Cache

[phn at icke-reklam.ipsec.nu]

Matt <nospam.hciss at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> >> rndc dumpdb
>>
>> > Does not work.  Tried it on my other Linux box running as an email
> server
>> > and it works there.  Is there a setting somewhere I could have messe=
d up
>> > causing it to not cache?
>>
>> > Matt
>>
>> *what* does not work ? Does 'rndc' give an error ( faulty
>> rndc/key setup) ?  Or don't you find the file ( you can
>> specify where it will go to ; options dump-file :
>> "dump-file

> My bad.  Did not really explain that well at all.

> I do "rndc dumpdb" and it returns instantly.  According to "rndc --help=
" its
> supposed to dump this to "named_dump.db".  So after the "rndc dumpdb" I=
 do
> "locate -u" then "locate named_dump.db" and it finds no such file.  I t=
ry
> this same procedure on my linux email server running bind/named and it
> outputs the dump file where its supposed to be with about a ~meg of dat=
a in
> it.

> So I think somehow it much not be caching.  The DNS lookup part does wo=
rk
> though so I assume its just not caching.

> Matt

>>     The pathname of the file the server dumps the database to when
> instructed to do so with rndc dumpdb. If not specified, the default is
> named_dump.db."

I'd look through the config for rndc and bind and make shure
that all directories that bind uses exists.  Even a empty cache
will result in a dumpfile.





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