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