Newbie - How does Bind8 stores the cached IP numbers in Menory?

[Carsten Muck]

Hi,

I´m running Bind8 un Suse Linux 7.1,
here is my question:

Can anyone tell me where and how Bind stores the cached data in the Memory?

We are a group of 5 students getting rid of loosing all the cached data when
restarting named.

So we want to write a "little" Hack or Patch to make it possible to store
the data in a file before shutting down the nameser, and reload the data on
demand.

The worst problem is to find the regarding part of the code in the src of
bind (does anyone know where the arrays or structs for the data are, or
where the array is filled with the data?)

Regards
Carsten Muck

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