BIND Authorative forwarding caching server

[Dan Glass]

Hello.

Actually, the caching nameserver will only be caching my own domain names.


Brad Knowles wrote:

> At 3:13 PM -0800 2005-11-04, dan at nameplanet.com wrote:
>
>>                                                                  Rather
>>  than having many DNS servers, I was hoping to have some
>>  caching/forwarding slaves that all forward to a couple of masters, so
>>  that each slave wont need it's own extenal database.
>
>
>     BIND can serve data in one of two ways -- as an authoritative 
> server, or as a caching server.  Either way, you've got some sort of 
> database that you're operating from.
>
>     Your caching resolvers are presumably going to serve data from a 
> lot of domains other than the ones that you own yourself.  What's 
> wrong with having them cache the data from your own servers?  If there 
> is a problem with caching the data from your own servers, then why not 
> set the TTLs really low?
>