Looking at Cache

[Mektub]

On Tue, 4 May 2004 13:44:29 -0500, "Matt" <nospam.hciss at yahoo.com>
wrote:

>> >> rndc dumpdb
>>
>> > Does not work.  Tried it on my other Linux box running as an email
>server
>> > and it works there.  Is there a setting somewhere I could have =
messed up
>> > causing it to not cache?
>>
>> > Matt
>>
>> *what* does not work ? Does 'rndc' give an error ( faulty
>> rndc/key setup) ?  Or don't you find the file ( you can
>> specify where it will go to ; options dump-file :
>> "dump-file
>
>My bad.  Did not really explain that well at all.
>
>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.
>
>So I think somehow it much not be caching.  The DNS lookup part does =
work
>though so I assume its just not caching.
>
>Matt
>
>>     The pathname of the file the server dumps the database to when
>instructed to do so with rndc dumpdb. If not specified, the default is
>named_dump.db."
>
>

It happened to me also, it returned instantly. I am using bind as a
caching only nameserver.

I had to explicitely put in options in /etc/named.conf the entry:

dump-file "/tmp/DnsDump";

after that it started dumping the cache.

regards,

Mektub