/var/cache/bind empty

[Eric Benoit]

If it is using a RAM cache how do you lookup a list  of the sites that 
has been cached?

Kevin Darcy wrote:
> DenisG wrote:
> 
> 
>>Hi
>>
>>I just installed my first BIND on a Debian Sarge server, it seems to
>>work fine for LAN queries but before becoming my domain's DNS, I'd like
>>to understand some things:
>>
>>I installed with apt-get install, everything is in /etc/bind
>>(named.conf, zone files). I thought /var/cache/bind was here to store
>>the cache, but I noticed it keeps empty. Is it an error in my conf?
>>If it's normal, what is this directory for?
>>And then where does BIND store the cache?
>>
> 
> BIND uses a RAM cache, not a disk cache. As such, I'm not sure what the 
> point of /var/cache/bind would be. I'm assuming that the "apt-get 
> install" set up that directory, right? Or was it pre-existing? Are there 
> any references to /var/cache/bind in the generated named.conf file? I 
> suppose it might be useful as a dump-file, statistics-file and/or 
> memstatistics-file location. Or maybe the apt-get authors were just 
> confused...
> 
> - Kevin
> 
>