Caching name server setup problems

Matus UHLAR - fantomas uhlar at fantomas.sk
Tue Jul 15 15:46:47 UTC 2008


On 15.07.08 09:51, Michael Varre wrote:
> I running it internally to serve local zones I have setup, and I would also
> like it to act as the resolver for my internal machines that need to resolve
> public hostnames.  In all the step by steps, they pretty much just say to
> make sure you have your root zone setup and forwarders and that should be
> it.
> 
> That's fine and dandy, but I don't see that my server is actually caching
> anything.  I don't see where that cached data is being stored, and further
> more I don't see any difference in query answer time from the first time I
> try to resolve a host to any subsequent attempts.they are ALL 1ms.

I don't think you can turn on caching if you used BIND as recursive resolver
:) So it most probably does cache the data. You can simply try 

dig +norecurse @yourserver <name>

so BIND will only return local/cached data
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