Looking at Cache

[Barry Margolin]

In article <c78ovh$1bcd$1 at sf1.isc.org>, "Matt" <nospam.hciss at yahoo.com> 
wrote:

> I do "rndc dumpdb" and it returns instantly.  According to "rndc --help" its
> supposed to dump this to "named_dump.db".  So after the "rndc dumpdb" I do
> "locate -u" then "locate named_dump.db" and it finds no such file.  I try
> this same procedure on my linux email server running bind/named and it
> outputs the dump file where its supposed to be with about a ~meg of data in
> it.

Maybe there's a permissions problem preventing the named process from 
creating the named_dump.db file.  Have you checked your log for error 
messages?

> So I think somehow it much not be caching.  The DNS lookup part does work
> though so I assume its just not caching.

It *always* caches, you can't turn it off even if you want to.  And even 
if the cache were empty, dumpdb would create an empty file.

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Barry Margolin, barmar at alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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