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"; -- Matthew Saltzman Clemson University Math Sciences mjs AT clemson DOT edu http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
