On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 16:40:59 +0900, John Summerfield <debian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > So far as I can tell, and Ive been using RHL and its successors since > RHL 3.0.3, "caching nameserver" is a term invented by RH. I don't think so. > Whatever, it describes a name server that is authoritative for no zones. It does iterative lookups rather than publish information. Typically it is a good idea to separate dns caches from dns publishers. > Generally speaking, every DNS caches. _My_ DSNs are responsible for some > domains such as office.lan, demo.roon and so on, may refer to other > nameservers I maintain and either refer to my IAP's DNS for public If a server is just a publisher it doesn't need to cache data data from other domains (than it is authoritative for).
