Caching-Only Behavior

Simon Waters Simon at wretched.demon.co.uk
Wed Nov 20 22:00:37 UTC 2002



NCR Employee wrote:
> 
> will it respond to name server
> requests that are sent directly to it from other servers?

Yes, but maybe not always as you'd expect!

I put "listen-on { 127.0.0.1; };" in the option section when
building a local caching only name server. 

One less open port to worry about.

Many OSes now provide a program to cache names, I've been known
to disable these and use BIND 9, as collectively they seem to
cause as much trouble as they solve.




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