Re: A beginners question regarding a caching-only name server

2011-04-10 Thread Patrick Rynhart
Hi Andrew, On 9/04/2011 12:37 a.m., andrew wales wrote: > > Remember that rndc dumpdb doesn't actually dump the cache to stdout. > Has it actually written to named_dump.db in named's working directory? > Regards, > > Andrew Thanks - you are spot on here :-) I was expecting the DB to be writte

Re: A beginners question regarding a caching-only name server

2011-04-08 Thread andrew wales
On 8 April 2011 12:00, Patrick Rynhart wrote: > (where the host 192.168.239.2 is "upstream" DNS in my case), then DNS > queries are resolved by the client but do not appear to be cached, i.e.: > > # rndc dumpdb > # > > What am I missing ? > Remember that rndc dumpdb doesn't actually dump the cac

Re: A beginners question regarding a caching-only name server

2011-04-08 Thread Torinthiel
 Dnia 2011-04-08 23:00 Patrick Rynhart napisał(a): >On 8/04/2011 10:11 p.m., Tony Finch wrote: > >> No, only DNS requests that are handled by the server itself are cached. >> There is no sniffing going on. >> >> Tony. > >Thank you for the clarification. If I add "nameserver 127.0.0.1" to the >V

Re: A beginners question regarding a caching-only name server

2011-04-08 Thread Torinthiel
 Dnia 2011-04-08 21:58 Patrick Rynhart napisał(a): >I am new to using BIND and thought that I would start by setting up a >caching-only name server on a VM running CentOS 5.5. While in this >mode, my understanding is that named should be passively listening for >any DNS requests that are resolve

Re: A beginners question regarding a caching-only name server

2011-04-08 Thread Patrick Rynhart
On 8/04/2011 10:11 p.m., Tony Finch wrote: > No, only DNS requests that are handled by the server itself are cached. > There is no sniffing going on. > > Tony. Thank you for the clarification. If I add "nameserver 127.0.0.1" to the VM (and comment out the existing name servers) and attempt to r

Re: A beginners question regarding a caching-only name server

2011-04-08 Thread Tony Finch
Patrick Rynhart wrote: > I am new to using BIND and thought that I would start by setting up a > caching-only name server on a VM running CentOS 5.5. While in this > mode, my understanding is that named should be passively listening for > any DNS requests that are resolved and be adding them to

A beginners question regarding a caching-only name server

2011-04-08 Thread Patrick Rynhart
I am new to using BIND and thought that I would start by setting up a caching-only name server on a VM running CentOS 5.5. While in this mode, my understanding is that named should be passively listening for any DNS requests that are resolved and be adding them to its local DB. Adding localhost t