A caching nameserver is simply a server which is not authoritative for any domains. You can have yours be authoritative and point all of your boxes at it for lookups also. Anything it looks up will be cached normally. Jay > -----Original Message----- > From: Philip C Mendelsohn [mailto:mend0070 at tc.umn.edu] > Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2001 9:16 AM > To: 'tclug-list at mn-linux.org' > Subject: RE: [TCLUG] BIND / named / inetd.conf > > > On Tue, 16 Jan 2001, Austad, Jay wrote: > > > You don't have to do anything with inetd. Inetd is only > for setting up > > network access to programs that don't normally run as a daemon. > > Thanks -- I just found that in a book before I checked my > e-mail. Doh! > > > You have your IN NS lines setup correctly and the SOA at > the top of the > > config file? > > I believe so -- will double check. > > > Does nslookup say "non-authoritative"? If not, it's considered > > authoritative. > > nslookup says Non-authoritative. Even for the 127 lookup. I saw > something about this in some bind doc files, but am still > grepping for it. > > > Keep in mind that you cannot give your DNS server a private > address and NAT > > it to a public one. I've heard that you might be able to > with Bind 9, but I > > haven't tried it. This doesn't sound like your problem, > but keep that in > > mind. > > That's clever, but I don't think I need to be that clever. > > Here's a question that is either related to both topics or not: > > Can you make your NS authoritative locally and also do a > caching DNS, or > should you really do two separate NS? (To do local DNS, and > then speed up > lookups to the outside world.) > > The reason I wonder if this is related is that when going > through the DNS > HOWTO, I didn't spend much time with the caching server, and > don't know if > I got it working right but just jumped to the local one (and > deleted the > db.root reference) > > I think I'm close. Files available on request. > > Thanks, > Phil > > -- > "To misattribute a quote is unforgivable." --Anonymous > > _______________________________________________ > tclug-list mailing list > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >