/etc/resolv.conf

[Joe Hamelin]

So, for the caching server to resolve things itself you would want to
put 127.0.0.1 in /etc/resolv.conf.  I thought he was asking what he
should put there.  Sorry to piss you off so much. I'll just shut up
and let you yell at everyone from now on.

-Joe "only been using named for 10 years" Hamelin

On Tue, 22 Jun 2004 18:02:07 -0400, Joseph S D Yao <jsdy at center.osis.gov> wrote:
> 
> 
> 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].
> 
> --
> Joe Yao                         jsdy at center.osis.gov - Joseph S. D. Yao
> OSIS Center Systems Support                                     EMT-B
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Joe Hamelin 
Edmonds, WA, US