I've never seen any disk usage for anything other than master zones on the seven nameservers I run, if that's any help. Without having looked at the source, it would appear that named writes some temporary files during zone-transfers, and can be configured to dump statistics in a database-like format file. Other than that, the cache is not using hard disk space at all, as far as I can tell. I'm in the process of building a CD-ROM boot disk that has a live Debian filesystem on it and logging cranked down with logrotate aggressively rotating off the logs ... that all runs from ramdisk as a test of how to create cheap caching-only/forwarding nameservers. I'll put up a URL here in -user once I have it working if anyone wants to play with it. On Fri, Jun 02, 2000 at 02:23:37PM -0700, Chris Baker wrote: > Bob Bernstein <poobah@ruptured-duck.com> writes: > > > I haven't asked a big dummy question in awhile; here goes: > > > > Is named's cache of dns query results held in memory only or is it ever - for > > any reason - written to a file? > > Memory only, last time I checked at least. Anybody else? -- Nate Duehr <nate@natetech.com> GPG Key fingerprint = DCAF 2B9D CC9B 96FA 7A6D AAF4 2D61 77C5 7ECE C1D2 Public Key available upon request, or at wwwkeys.pgp.net and others.
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