/etc/resolv.conf changes

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 16:40:59 +0900,
  John Summerfield <debian at herakles.homelinux.org> 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).