auth vs caching setup

Kevin Darcy kcd at daimlerchrysler.com
Wed Apr 12 21:50:53 UTC 2000


Barry Margolin wrote:

> In article <PQ5J4.43790$E85.817669 at news1.rdc1.md.home.com>,
> Chris Cell <ccell at home.com> wrote:
> >This may be a rather green question, but what exactly would this do for you?
> >Is it so the primary server only is responsible for zone transfers, and not
> >answering to the outside world?
>
> It will answer to the outside world, but only for the zones that it's
> authoritative for; if someone queries it for names in some other domain, it
> will return a referral up to the root servers.  This reduces cache
> corruption (you can reduce it even further by using "fetch-glue no" as
> well).

It also reduces memory consumption, since you have less data being cached.


- Kevin




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