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List:       djbdns
Subject:    Re: Full featured djbdns jumbo patch
From:       prj () po ! cwru ! edu (Paul Jarc)
Date:       2001-10-11 15:02:49
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Henning Brauer <lists-djbdns@bsws.de> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 06:39:24AM -0400, Raul Miller wrote:
>>>>>     - add support to dnscache reload servers files
>>>>>     when it receive SIGHUP signal 
...
>> And what's wrong with forwarding?
>
> eh? you're dnscache should consult your internal tinydns for
> 0.168.192.in-addr.arpa. Tell me how to reach this goal without a local
> root-server and without touching dnscache's server/ directory.

You have a forwarder with a large cache pointing to a resolver with a
small cache.  You change the resolver's servers/* and restart it.
Your forwarder retains its large cache.

It's be nice if the resolver could be told to cache only NS records.


paul

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