Named cache kept through restart or reboot

Supp0rtLinux · 01-21-2002, 01:15 PM

I use a laptop and connect to DHCP servers at work, home, and various clients. I also use wireless (802.11b). To aid in DNS lookups, I run a caching only name server (named, not nscd). However, because I use a laptop, my local DNS cache is lost daily when I reboot, or anytime named is restarted.

Is there a way of telling named to keep my DNS cache through reboots and restarts? If so, can it be set up to keep say 5 days worth of cache? (obviously I don't want it to keep it forever)...

Any suggestions on specifics?

AD

lfslinux · 01-21-2002, 01:48 PM

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Originally posted by Supp0rtLinux
I use a laptop and connect to DHCP servers at work, home, and various clients. I also use wireless (802.11b). To aid in DNS lookups, I run a caching only name server (named, not nscd). However, because I use a laptop, my local DNS cache is lost daily when I reboot, or anytime named is restarted.

Is there a way of telling named to keep my DNS cache through reboots and restarts? If so, can it be set up to keep say 5 days worth of cache? (obviously I don't want it to keep it forever)...

Any suggestions on specifics?

AD

named does not keep its cache on disk. It's only kept in memory, thus when you kill/restart the named daemon (rebooting the system is done way of accomplishing that) the cache is lost.

There is no feature in named to keep the cache on disk, so you're going to have to download the source and rewrite named to keep the cache on disk instead of in memory.

How to do this? That I can't help you with. Perhaps you're lucky and somebody else has done this already and made a patch available somewhere. I'd say try http://www.google.com to try to find it.

Supp0rtLinux · 01-21-2002, 05:11 PM

Thanks... the explanation is appreciated...
I'll search google... thank goodness for open source s/w... at least I know I can recompile it (though figuring out how to may be another story)... but if this were windows I'd be out of luck...