Bind8 does every 4sec a DNS-lookup

Mark Andrews Mark.Andrews at nominum.com
Thu Jun 22 01:27:35 UTC 2000


> On Jun 22,  1:43am, Mark Andrews wrote:
> } Subject: Re: Bind8 does every 4sec a DNS-lookup
> } 
> } > Ok, does it mean that my ns do on every time I start it this querry to
> } > confirm the list and then be quiet?!?
> } > I usually shutdown and restart the server every day. So I the ns
> } > querry´s every day for that list.
> } > I think the best way for me in this situation is to remove the root.hint
> } > entry and keep only the forwarders entry. Is that possible and a good
> } > possibitity?
> } > 
> } > Christian
> } 
> } 	No. The nameserver will still ask for the root servers.
> 
> I thought that cache priming was turned off if the forward option is
> set to "only".

	No.  It still needs to, and does, query for the root servers.

	Mark
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