On Tue, 2005-05-17 at 09:47 -0700, Lee Parmeter wrote:
I started the named server on CentOS and it seems to resolve DNS request OK, but it does not seem to retain the info for very long. From what I can tell using "dig", a domain's ip address is retained for less than 12 hours. So in the morning, it takes 4+ seconds to resolve again the first time. Is there an adjustment somewhere for this or is the caching named support not enabled by default?
Also, I thought it would be faster if I set named to use my ISP's named server as the first choice. Where do I set this up, in root.hints?
No ... it won't normally be faster to use your ISP's DNS first ...
You will ask it a question ... it will ask the main server ... then reply to you. If you ask yourself, it will cut out the middle man :)