DNS newbie question

[David Botham]

bind-users-bounce at isc.org wrote on 05/10/2005 01:11:51 PM:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> I have two DNS servers external to my firewall, running BIND 9.2.2.
> Any hostnames that they cannot resolve are being forwarded to my ISP's
> DNS servers.  My servers have zone data files and I wanted to see if
> caching was enabled and, if not, to configure BIND so that it is

BIND caches by default.

Dave...


> enabled.  After endless searching on Google, I have heard very bad
> things about nscd and BIND not working well together so I want to
> reconfigure BIND to continue to resolve hostnames with its own zone
> data files, forward requests it cannot handle to the ISP's DNS servers,
> AND cache the latter results to cut down on requests made to the ISP's
> DNS servers.  Many thanks.
> 
>