On Sat, Aug 14, 1999 at 12:52:55PM -0700, Bill Parker wrote:
> Thanks to the help of some guys on here and IRC, I have installed bind 8.2.1
> from a tarball which I got from isc.org, now I am ready to try to implement a
> caching DNS server, it appears to be working, now I have a question, since I
> used the DNS How-to on the sunsite page (I can't find my ORA bind/dns book at
> the moment), what I would like to know, will named grab information from the
> root name servers if the info is not stored in cache (I take it that is what
> the root.hints file is for?) Or am I in the wrong direction again?
You're in the right direction. If your server doesn't know the answer to a
question (it's not authoritative and the answer isn't in cache), it'll ask
someone else. This may be a root server if no information at all about the
request is cached, or it may be something further down the line. (Maybe it
already has cached the fact that koobera.math.uic.edu is authoritative for
cr.yp.to, but it doesn't know what the mail exchanger is for cr.yp.to. It won't
go to a root server to find out--it'll head straight to koobera.math.uic.edu.)
Chris
