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?

Anyone who knows more about "named" please feel free to comment!

Thanks! Lee

I already sent 2 replys :)

http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2005-May/006003.html

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On May 17, 2005, at 12:47 PM, Lee Parmeter wrote:

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?

you don't set it up in root.hints, you use named.conf.

in the "options" section (should be near the top of the file), insert the following lines:

forwarders { <ip address of your ISP's nameserver>; <ip address of your ISP's other nameserver>; };

then stop and restart BIND. this tells BIND to send all queries that it cannot resolve locally out to the forwarders - it is unlikely that you should be querying root nameservers directly.

you can add as many additional nameservers as you like; they will be queried in order.

-steve

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