/etc/resolv.conf

[Joseph S D Yao]

On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 01:30:34AM -0500, Matt wrote:
> If you want your Linux box to act as a caching DNS server using root servers
> do you leave /etc/resolv.conf blank or what?
> 
> Matt

/etc/resolv.conf has NOTHING to do with the server portion of BIND,
only with the resolver portion.  It points the resolver portion, for
programs running on that box, to some name server or another.  If it's
blank, none of the programs running on the system will be able to
resolve any host names or IP addresses.  [Except for the name daemon,
if you are running it, since it's completely independent of
/etc/resolv.conf.]

A purely caching name server very simply has no zones [except root].

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