auth vs caching setup

[Chris Cell]

This only helps authoritative servers that are parents - correct?

----- Original Message -----
From: Kevin Darcy <kcd at daimlerchrysler.com>
To: <comp-protocols-dns-bind at moderators.isc.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2000 5:50 PM
Subject: Re: auth vs caching setup


> 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.
>
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> - Kevin
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