cache-only server
Danny Mayer
mayer at gis.net
Tue Nov 28 03:15:10 UTC 2000
At 12:10 PM 11/27/00 -0500, Kevin Darcy wrote:
>> will it help if I add the primary and secondary dns on the
>> /etc/resolve file? so it will not just go the the root server to query
>> the information?
>
>named never looks at /etc/resolv.conf. Also, named won't go to the root
>servers for any queries if it already has referral information cached for
>the domain in question. So you shouldn't see root server queries very
>often.
You are misinformed about this at least in regard to the resolve file
on the name server. named 8.2.x reads this file at startup. I doubt that
it will improve any performance to have the primary and secondary server
listed there.
Danny
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