Re: Bind

["Martin Bialasinski" <martin@internet-treff.uni-koeln.de>]

>> "Brian" == Brian Schramm <schpage@pagesz.net> writes:

Brian> I am using one machine to run Debian 2.1.  I do not have a
Brian> network but I want bind to handle caching of DNS inquires.  I
Brian> am doing this so I can use the sendmail genericstable and
Brian> virtualtable and convert my addresses to the ones I want to
Brian> have everyone use for replys.

I don't know sendmail, but I doubt it is necessary to have a running
bind to do address rewriting. This is completely unrelated.

Brian> My problem is now if I am not connected to the net, everything
Brian> stops when I send a message.  I have not changed my sendmail
Brian> configuration yet to vurtual hosting so I cannot see where that
Brian> is the problem.

Brian> I installed the bind package with no forwarding so it is in
Brian> caching setup.

So where does your bind gets it's info, if you didn't specify
forwarders (= hosts to ask for entries it doesn't know = your ISP's
DNS servers)? It tries to ask the root servers.

I believe you have a misconception about the thing you want to setup
and solve. What should your bind cache, and where does it get this info 
from? Where did you read about this bind <-> addressrewriting
connection?

Ciao,
	Martin