On Mon, 2008-03-24 at 15:21 -0700, vincenzo romero wrote:
thank you for the responses ... and Matthew I think it is getting
clearer now .... however you mention:
> you
> probably have installed a caching nameserver.
i used the Bind Configuration tool; initially when it generates the
DNS records files, the configuration is caching nameserver; however,
when I imported my hosts file, it automatically also created addition
zones which includes my domain -
lab.mycompany.com. I checked my
/etc/named.conf configuration against a sample configuration URL and
compared a "caching" vs "standard DNS" and it seems like I have the
standard DNS configured ...
can someone pls confirm that the info I am following is correct?
(source:
http://www.linux-sxs.org/internet_serving/dns.html#common)
1. CACHING:
===========
/etc/named.conf(CACHING ONLY Configuration)
#----------------------------------------------
[...]
I'm no bind expert, so I can't really comment. But caching nameserver
seems to be the default configuration provided by the bind package in
F8.
$ sudo cat /etc/named.conf
//
// named.caching-nameserver.conf
//
// Provided by Red Hat caching-nameserver package to configure the
// ISC BIND named(8) DNS server as a caching only nameserver
// (as a localhost DNS resolver only).
//
// See /usr/share/doc/bind*/sample/ for example named configuration files.
//
// DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - use system-config-bind or an editor
// to create named.conf - edits to this file will be lost on
// caching-nameserver package upgrade.
//
options {
listen-on port 53 { 127.0.0.1; };
listen-on-v6 port 53 { ::1; };
directory "/var/named";
dump-file "/var/named/data/cache_dump.db";
statistics-file "/var/named/data/named_stats.txt";
memstatistics-file "/var/named/data/named_mem_stats.txt";
allow-query { localhost; };
recursion yes;
};
logging {
channel default_debug {
file "data/named.run";
severity dynamic;
};
};
zone "." IN {
type hint;
file "named.ca";
};
include "/etc/named.rfc1912.zones";
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Matthew Saltzman
Clemson University Math Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu
http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs