From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 21 21:10:27 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 21 21:10:26 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-11.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4EE1F37B400 for ; Thu, 21 Dec 2000 21:10:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from [212.238.77.116] (helo=buffy.raggedclown) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with smtp (Exim 3.14 #4) id 149KTC-000CBp-00; Fri, 22 Dec 2000 05:10:21 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [[UNIX: localhost]]) by buffy.raggedclown (8.10.2/8.10.2) id eBM59uj02383; Fri, 22 Dec 2000 06:09:56 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2000 06:09:54 +0100 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.1.99] Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" To: M , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <200012220206.VAA04650@intercon.net.ve> In-Reply-To: <200012220206.VAA04650@intercon.net.ve> Subject: Re: has NAMED a cache? MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <00122206095402.01050@buffy> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Friday 22 December 2000 03:06, M wrote: > Hi. > > If I use named as my DNS, does it keeps in memory or disk the previous > petitions? Can I handle or customize this "cache" to improve my system? > > Thanks. > Yes it keeps an in-memory cache. If you do an nslookup, and get an answer marked as "non-authoritative" it means it has found it in the cache. The cache is lost when you restart DNS. Exactly what "improvements" were you planning ? Cliff To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message