Date: Tue, 20 May 1997 20:01:03 -0400 (EDT) From: Richard Toren <rpt@sso.wdl.lmco.com> To: questions <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: caching DNS, question [Thanks] Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.970520194743.10327A-100000@hps> In-Reply-To: <199705200902.CAA01857@smtp.connectnet.com>
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Thanks to everyone who responded; here is the reason and the result.
WHY?
1> I have experienced sessions where Netscape would display that it was
looking up a name for over a minute, then connect and bring up the screen
in 5 seconds. This was with a site (SAT testing) that takes you through
about 14 screens, each being looked up.
I figured that if I could cache that dot notation, things would run
much faster.
2> I can dump the cache to see what names have been resolved.
3> It is another skill to be learned, if you don't understand the
basics, the wiz-bang stuff seems like magic.
4> I just spent 2 weeks (off and on) trying to help our sysadmin
set up a Sun 4.1.4 system (with no YP) that could not resolve anything.
Then the fog lifted and I remembered that libc is hardwired for YP.
(tracing ping also helped :-> )
RESULT
In /etc/named:
1> setup and ran 'make-localhost'
2> setup 'named.boot' with a cache, primary, and forwarders lines
3> mv'd resolv.conf out of the way
4> started the named
> BOING!!!!
Thanx again to all....
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