----- Forwarded message from Paul E Condon <[email protected]> -----
Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2011 20:51:59 -0600 From: Paul E Condon <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Subject: Re: question about bind9 from a clueless paranoid Message-ID: <[email protected]> Mail-Followup-To: [email protected] References: <[email protected]> <20110404180551.GS7935@desktop> <[email protected]> <20110406111404.GU7935@desktop> <[email protected]> <20110406221619.GV7935@desktop> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20110406221619.GV7935@desktop> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Status: RO Content-Length: 1378 Lines: 35 On 20110406_231619, Brian wrote: > On Wed 06 Apr 2011 at 12:20:42 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > > > To do this usefully, I have to first figure out how to configure my newly > > installed instance of BIND9. Correct? I don't think I'm there yet... > > If all you want to do is have named do lookups and cache the replies it > works without changing the installed configuration, Forwarders can be > designated in /etc/bind/named.conf.options. > > > This contains information that's new to me. You seem to be saying > > that my copy of BIND on my computer is building its own internal > > cache. I don't see any reason why it couldn't contain a cache, but I > > haven't read anywhere that it actually *does* have a cache > > internally. Does it contain a cache? > > The README.Debian mentions it. The cache kept in memory for a certain > length of time. Run, for example, 'dig debian.net' twice and look at the > Query Time. The second value should be close to 0 ms. I did your suggested test. First dig debian.net returned 736 ms. Second and several more all returned 1 ms. Then I restart bind9: # /etc/init.d/bind9 restart and the first dig debian.net again gives many hundreds of millisec. A very clean demonstration that bind9 running on my computer contains a cache, and uses it. Thanks. I have learned a lot. -- Paul E Condon [email protected] ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Paul E Condon [email protected] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
