Bind as cache only

[Mike Burger]

On Fri, 10 Feb 2006, Budi Febrianto wrote:

> Hello General,
>
>  I have problem with bind that setup as caching only.
>
>  I already have a server as bind server in the office, where every pc
>  and server listed in there.
>
>  Because of our smtp server load is increase I want to setup bind as
>  caching only in the smtp server, hopely can reduce trafic load to
>  our bind server.
>
>  Problem is, while it can query the public dns... but it can't query
>  to our local bind server.
>
>  should I add forwarders in named.conf?

What does the resolv.conf for the mail server look like?

>From what you wrote, above, I gather that you want to run the caching name 
server on the SMTP host, itself.  If this is the case, then the mail 
server's resolv.conf should have either the localhost IP, or its own IP 
(or both), first, and then the IP(s) of any public DNS server you wish to 
have it query.

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