A nagging question about DNS caching only

[Jack F. Vogel]

In article <862 at bcstec.boeing.com> ced at bcstec.uucp (Charles Derykus) writes:

|Jack, thanks for the clarity.  Actually, we did roll our own "nslookup". I
|also tried dumping the database . It was empty. After making a couple
|of address requests, I found open errors on "named.local" and 
|"named.ca".  After editing in explicit paths for them in the boot file,
|the problems went away. I had mis-assumed? that /etc was default. I know
                               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
|this sounds very dubious to say the least. Honest, though, it's working
|now. Can any one comment on this? 
 
Yes, I can comment. With more recent versions of the nameserver there is
a keyword or directive that you can put in the /etc/named.boot file :
	directory	/your/path/here
which will be where named will look for its database files. But, of
course, the version of the code on the 6000 currently doesn't have this
support, and, no, I don't think it has a default. Oh well, bit by the
back-level code again :-}!

Disclaimer: I don't speak for the company.


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