Caching only server

[Merton Campbell Crockett]

On 28 Jan 2006, at 03:50 PST, Mokwena Motseto wrote:

>
> Hi
>
> I need to change my DNS server to forward all the requests to other  
> DNS
> servers
>
> I have changed the named.conf file to the one below, is there anything
> that I might have overlooked
>
> This is what my named.conf file looks like
>
>
>
> // generated by named-bootconf.pl
>
> options {
> 	directory "/etc/named.data";
> 	forwarders {
> 		10.3.64.51;
> 		10.3.64.52;
> 		10.3.64.73;
> 	};
> };
>


Are the above addresses examples or the ones that you will actually  
be using?  If the latter, I assume that you do not have direct access  
to the Internet root name servers and that the only systems permitted  
to perform external DNS queries are those listed in the forwarders  
option.  If this is the case, I would add the following option.

	forward only;

This will eliminate attempts to contact the Internet root name servers.



Merton Campbell Crockett
m.c.crockett at adelphia.net