question about caching & bind

[joe]

I appreciate your reply, although the "toy-operating systems" comment
was really unnecessary. It happens, servers get re-booted, its a fact
of life, but I still manage to sleep at night. I realize keeping the
server up is the main goal, however my question still stands. Can I
re-prime the cache as explained or is this is wasted effort.

regards,
Joel

On Wed, 18 Feb 2004 06:57:00 +0000 (UTC), phn at icke-reklam.ipsec.nu
wrote:

>joe <bonggo at nospam.rocketmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>
>>   I currently run a split DNS scenario and was wondering about caching
>> to possibly improve performance. Is it possible or even advisable to
>> have 1 or more DNS servers (say internally for arguments sake) utilize
>> another separate bind caching only server ? My thinking is that if one
>> or both of the servers is rebooted I lose the rich cache it has
>> created and it would be nice to prime the lost cache quicker. If so
>> what is considered best practice ?
>
>Keeping nameserver(s) running and avoiding forwarding might be
>considered "best practice"
>
>"rebooting nameserver" ?? If you are thinking of toy-operating systems, 
>there is other places to discuss "how often" and "why" rebooting before crash.
>
>> thanks,
>> Joel