Aleksandar Kuktin wrote:

> Well, I made BIND run. Ended up reading most of the big fat manual so
> no time and effort savings there. But I had a lot of fun setting up my
> own top-level domain. :) Unfortunately, I only have one machine so all
> domains resolve to 127.0.0.1.

LOL.  :)

> The performance increase is admirable and about what I expected.
>
> However, I do have a problem with the perisheable cache. One of the
> alternatives, pdnsd, writes its cache to disk on shutdown and re-reads
> it on startup. This enables it to carry the cache over the power
> cycle, a feature I would like to have.
>
> Is there a way to make BIND do the same? I went over the configuration
> options in BIND Administrator Reference Manual but found nothing. Maybe
> there is something in the source tree? I should probably look there
> too.

A comment I found via google:  "persistent cache" is an oxymoron.

Also: "When a conventional server starts, it builds up a cache fairly
quickly. Loading old, possibly stale, data seems an exercise in
pointlessness. All that's saved is a bit of latency perhaps and some
bandwidth for DNS lookups. That will get lost in the noise. Meanwhile
extra complexity is added to the server to dump and reload an old
cache. Things will get even uglier with views in BIND9. Each view has
its own cache. What if the server finds the view definitions changed
before the restart?"

   -- Bruce

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