caching-nameserver

[Magic_Wand]

I have looked all over HP's web site and various other search engines in my quest to find some information on setting up a "caching-nameserver" on HP/UX 11.11.

Anyone setup one for 11.00 or has any info? I'd appreciate any help.

[Christopher Caldwell]

To set up a caching only name server, seed the cache (usually /etc/named.data/db.cache) with the root name servers (a reasonable cache file is attached).

Reference the cache file from /etc/named.boot:

; type domain source file;


directory /etc/named.data ; running directory for named

cache . db.cache


Start/restart named.

[Sridhar Bhaskarla]

Tony,

I did setup a caching only name server (upon a complaint from a vendor that his application was slowing down due to lookup overhead) long before. He was proven wrong anyway :-)

Look at the following document.

http://docs.hp.com/hpux/onlinedocs/B2355-90147/B2355-90147.html

Look under BIND Name service section.

-Sri

[Magic_Wand]

Great. Thank you both for the prompt information.